• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Kind of like what happened with McAfee! Just don’t look up

    Who was CTO of McAfee when an update bricked millions of computers by deleting svchost.exe

    George Kurtz, the CEO and co-founder of Crowdstrike

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      It’s just so insane to me that c-suites are able to fail upwards after catastrophic failures like that.

      Incidentally, the guy who’s in charge of Google’s search division these days is the guy who was in charge of Yahoo’s search division during the period of time when the went from neck and neck for top dog to “I guess only Japan uses us now” 🤭