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db2 ,

You think people who knew about it suddenly forgot?

RestrictedAccount ,

All press is good press?

Fubarberry ,
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At least in the western world I think it’s possible. A lot of people I know who don’t know much of anything about computers before this now know of Crowdstrike, although they don’t know any specifics.

vk6flab , (edited )
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Cute, but no.

I thnk that you vastly over estimate just how many computers and people were affected.

Microsoft estimates that 8.5 million computers were hit.

The computers hit were in the vast majority enterprise computers and mostly in the “Western World”.

In 2022, in millions, Lenovo shipped 68 million computers, HP 55.3, Dell 49.7, Apple 28.6, Asus 20.6, Acer 18.7, the rest around 70.1, that’s 286.2 million new computers shipped in 2022 alone.

In case you think that includes phones, nope, Samsung alone shipped 260.9 million mobile devices.

There are over 8 billion people on Earth. Most of them have never heard of CrowdStrike and never will.

I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them and I’d be surprised if they continue to exist for very much longer, all but guaranteeing that the name will become a footnote in history.

Source: windowsreport.com/how-many-computers-are-in-the-w…
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/2024_CrowdStrike_incident

Carnelian ,

So like. Hear me out.

What if, even if you were not personally affected, you still heard about crowdstrike because of the coverage?

I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them

But you have heard of them now, right? Kind of like that

me66 ,

Let’s say 99.99% of the World’s population had not heard of them before this happened, and I think those numbers are very generous.

Does anyone seriously believe that after this event only 0.01% of the World didn’t learn about them?

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