Anon with a great theory about the outage lastnight !!! links below.....
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I'm not getting the connection, The outage was caused by a bad update that was distributed. There is a workaround for that update. Someone could blow that building up, but unless the explosion randomly blows debris onto a keyboard that in turn changes code and distributes it, I don't see anything here. (for this issue anyhow)
Unless there's some sort of connection back to servers in that building.. . apparently, the update caused issues with authentication - possibly malicious software client registering with a server on that building?
Where did you see anything about authentication? I didn't see that. The only thing I've seen was removing a .sys file in the Windows CrowdStrike drivers directory fixes it (temporarily). Bitlocker can complicate it, but that is MSFT - not CS.
If it was an authentication issue it would likely affect Linux installs as well. It doesn't.
It might have been here.. something about the authentication servers being down. I think the m$ servers were running crowdstrike themselves or something along those lines. It was early in the outage
I might've seen something along those lines with Azure/M365. It wasn't really an authentication bug - the servers that provided authentication were down. Like if you want to go to a website but can't resolv the hostname in DNS, it doesn't mean DNS is broken if the whole server that runs DNS is down. The server is broken.
It was more of a symptom than a cause.
Good catch on that issue though. I remember something about it Friday morning because I checked my cloud PC and it was still working.