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.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    122·
    3 months ago

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

    • macniel@feddit.org
      44·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Ooops@feddit.org
        4·
        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.

      • Phuntis@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        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

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          4·
          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.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            24·
            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.