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    CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today. (possumpat.io)
    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

    Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

    Incredible work.

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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    No, unless its an embedded OS and it has no external ports.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    You can absolutely start writing garbage to bios and brick the mobo firmware.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    and the one I was replying to was asking about an OS being bricked, not about the bios or firmware.

    AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    Yes, time consuming. But it's still working hardware, not a now useless, now unrepairable paper weight...

    Which is the definiton of "bricked" although people nowadays start to use the term inflationary.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    brick my tiny down arrow

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

    then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

    If you want to be stupidly pedantic about shit, then nothing is anything.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    I agree with the sentiment but ...

    then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

    Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
    It's imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    well, you started this pedantic shit. So deal with it.

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

    Nah. The person you responded to asked a facetious question. You started being pedantic.Everyone know what it means when someone says something is bricked.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    it's not costly or time consuming maybe in the past but now you plug in a memory stick and hit a button then wait 5 minutes for a light to stop flashing