@littlealex that's funny indeed 🤣

@littlealex Damn, we're kurtzed

@littlealex not the first time and not the last. Mistakes happen, but this is really BAD!!!!

@littlealex @sindarina hm twice is starting to look like carelessness. let me guess: efficiencies?

@littlealex In IT I would say 'I start to see a pattern there'

@littlealex @catsalad sadly I remember this and was directly affected by it.
We learned that we needed to split our AV deployments into phases, with a small set of “canary” testers in our earliest TZ specifcally to test for this kind of problem.
Administration was painful but less painful than having hundreds or thousands of machines down.

@littlealex given the impact of CEOs on culture... anyone wanna bet they struggle with blameless postmortems and there's not an attitude of trust within the company?

@littlealex Someone who has too much money (though I'm sure a lot of it's just on paper from stocks)

@littlealex This guy is bad luck!

@littlealex Repeat offender

@littlealex

https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security/crowdstrike-exec-total-compensation-george-kurtz-leads-with-148m-in-fiscal-year-2022

@littlealex

It seems George Kurtz, his methods have become unsound....

#Crowdstrike #ApocalypseNow

@littlealex He made a bad wish with a genie, and has to pay it back every decade, didn't he?

@littlealex Everything he touches gets kurtzed(cursed). Call it #kurtzification

@littlealex how will he fail up from here.

@littlealex I couldn’t quite believe it but – yes, he was really there. I guess he has lots of relevant experience then. 🤪

@littlealex hope he’s preparing 3 letters.

@littlealex failing upwards I see.

@littlealex I'm surprised these Big Companies are using McAfee. Even the computer literate home user immediately uninstalls it for being bloatware.

@littlealex

He is the grandson of Colonel Walter E Kurtz, who committed war crimes during the Vietnam war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Kurtz?wprov=sfla1

@littlealex

Haha amazing! How did you dig this one up? 😂

https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/112813598334842557

@littlealex what grandpa still knew about ;)

@littlealex omg no way that's too funny. ("funny like an open grave," my dad would reply)

@littlealex noooo fucking way 😂😂

@littlealex Oh, neat: https://www.crowdstrike.com/about-crowdstrike/executive-team/george-kurtz/

His prior roles at McAfee, a $2.5 billion security company, include Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM as well as EVP of Enterprise.

@littlealex nominee for CIA MVP Award for outstanding Availabilty: „G. Kurtz“

@littlealex

"I wanted to see how many times I could get away with it and fall up; you wont believe the answer." "living thePeter Principal"

@littlealex

🤦‍♀️

@littlealex from his Wikipedia article:

"Over time, Kurtz became frustrated that existing security technology functioned slowly and was not, as he perceived it, evolving at the pace of new threats"

Yeah, move fast and break things, my ass 😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kurtz#McAfee

@littlealex The bugs I saw working there...

Let me tell you, the vast majority of programmers working for "security" companies are no more qualified than your average programmer to be doing anything security related. And there's not nearly enough review from people who are, if there's any at all.

@littlealex was he by any chance working at Panda AV in the late 90’s/early 2000?

Panda had something similar back then.

@littlealex Didn't know the names involved, but remember the McAfee incident and that was a comparatively easy fix by comparison.

@littlealex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHbT6BjFvcA

@littlealex wow.. looooooooooooool

@littlealex imagine the bonus this guy is going to get when he is fired this year? They could have afforded to QA this 100 times for the cost!

#latestagecapitalism

@littlealex Old Habits die hard

@littlealex 😂

@littlealex someone’s trying to pad their CV to get those lucrative state sponsored contracts!

@littlealex let me guess: his favorite business strategy is to raise shareholder value by downsizing QA?

@littlealex well that's a coincidence/record he probably would rather have not acquired.

@littlealex Well, as the saying goes, sh$t rolls downhill.

@littlealex How diskurtzeous

@littlealex that guy does not seem to take the concerns of employees very serious

@littlealex Taxi for Kurtz!

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@littlealex White men failing upward FTW!

@littlealex lol

@littlealex If this is connected to Kurtz, then it isn't funny at all, because he still earns more money than everyone who will answer your toot and still would find a new higher paid job faster than the average Joe.

@littlealex you mean George "I don't believe in Unit Testing but rather Testing in Production" Kurtz? shocked...shocked I tells ya.

@littlealex if I had a nickle every time Georgr Kurtz was somehow related to a global IT meltdown, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but strange that it happened twice.

@littlealex it’s 5958 all over again

@littlealex @alice

Sadly enough, I know a company probably eager enough to hire him.

The supervisory committee will probably give him a bonus next year, because of his great accomplishments in dealing with a really difficult situation for the company in 2024. Could they please pay him by making him owner and CEO of a genAI startup? ;-)

@littlealex 😮

@littlealex #dei

@littlealex

More proof that competence is not a core competency for executives.

From 2010: "Oops, they did it again. Early this morning, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that mistakenly deleted a crucial Windows XP file, sending systems into a reboot loop and requiring tedious manual repairs. It's not the first strike for the company, either. I've got details.”

#crowd_strike #microsoft

@littlealex The first step in securing your computer, is not to install security software.

@littlealex 😹

@littlealex what a coincidence

@littlealex Failing upward

@littlealex unique talent

@littlealex Oof! 😬

@littlealex old habits die hard?

@littlealex

From Wikipedia:

"Over time, Kurtz became frustrated that existing security technology functioned slowly and was not, as he perceived it, evolving at the pace of new threats. On a flight, he watched the passenger seated next to him wait 15 minutes for McAfee software to load on his laptop, an incident he later cited as part of his inspiration for founding CrowdStrike. He resigned from McAfee in October 2011."

@littlealex Once is bad luck. Twice is a bit of an oopsy.

@littlealex the irony is not lost :ablobgrimace:

@littlealex and the lesson he will learn from this incident is the engineers are all panicky and in the end it all worked out ok after all. Like y2k was no big deal because nothing happened

@littlealex what???!!!! No... 👀 🙃

@littlealex

Karma?

@littlealex Kurtz's name is straight out of Apocalypse Now!

@littlealex With that track record maybe he will become the next CEO of Boeing

@littlealex

According to Wikipedia Kurtz was in charge of Risk Management at McAfee!

Wrt to #Crowdstrike, surely it's 'two strikes and you're out...'? Perhaps Kurtz should spend more time seeking the Heart of Darkness or musing on the imminent Apocalypse?

Seriously, if the company is such a single-point-of-failure threat to the ICT environment world-wide it should be sued out of existence.

@littlealex ok, what’s he up to?

@littlealex you could say he is now on his 'second strike'... (at least)

@littlealex surely he won’t get a big fat bonus now. Right?

@littlealex
McAffe? Not bad, Affe means monkey/ape in German...

@littlealex I nominate George Kurtz for manager of Deutsche Bahn.

@littlealex
What a *coincidence*(?).

@littlealex I think they should at least dock his pay.

@littlealex
Now it's *definitely* "not the first strike for the company..." especially when you learn the name of the new company. :blobcatgiggle:

@littlealex New motto: "Design your infrastructure like George Kurtz has a piece of software running in it."

@littlealex LinkedIn version is: "Managed several software companies with global impact" 😂

@littlealex I was in college working in an IT "squad" when the McAfee one happened.

I also remember a windows update (vista?) that would bluescreen any system with an AMD CPU in it.

Lines out the door while fixing those things as fast as possible at the front counter.

@littlealex
Maybe he should take up a new line of work.🤦‍♂️

@littlealex If I tried to put this in a novel, my agent, my editor, and my critique partners would the manuscript at my head.

@littlealex automated updates are his best feature.

@littlealex McAffee is junk and always has been. I hate that it’s bloatware included in a lot of application updates and Windows systems, and I always uninstall it immediately.

@littlealex Ah well. The Big Boys will always make a comeback.

@littlealex I'm sure he'll find a way to ascend upwards without consequence.

@littlealex the good news is the guy in charge has seen this before.

@littlealex Mr Nutz deserves a better compensation package

@littlealex
Shows how fragile all our single point of failure systems are. Also how addicted we’ve b come. Even 10 years ago folks could have had work arounds. Now there aren’t any.

@littlealex @CosmicTraveler damn he did it twice

@littlealex @podfeet What’s even funnier is that, in 14 years, #Microsoft still haven’t architected their OS effectively to handle faulty kernel extensions.

@littlealex Quite a niche skill to have on your CV 😬

@littlealex 🤔

@littlealex Kurtz gives IT companies the squirts.

@littlealex Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

@littlealex mistah kurtz, he suck (heart of darkness)