[saagarjha]

> The truth may be mundane but a hack is as reasonable a theory as “oops we pushed boot loop code to world+dog”.

No it's not. There are many signs that point to this being a mistake. There are very few that point to it being a hack. You can't just go "oh it being a hack is one of the options therefore it is also something worth considering".

[Huggernaut]

Look there are two options on the table so it's 50/50. Ipso facto.

[bunabhucan]

I believe the flying spaghetti monster touched the file with His invisible noodly appendage so now it's a three way split.

[hdhshdhshdjd]

I didn’t say it was 50/50, but an accurate enumeration of options does include a failed attempt at a hack.

I fail to see why this is so difficult to understand.

[azinman2]

Especially because if it was crowdstrike wouldn’t be apologizing and accepting blame.

[owl57]

Why? They are in a very specific business and have more incentive to cover up successful attacks than most other companies.

And while I'm 99% for Hanlon's razor here, I don't see a reason to be sure it wasn't even a completely successful DoS attack.

[hdhshdhshdjd]

“Our employee pushed bad code by accident” is VASTLY better for them than “we didn’t secure the infra that pushes updates to millions of machines”.