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Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown

Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?

That’s what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice targeting his parody site ClownStrike.

Senk created ClownStrike in the aftermath of the largest IT outage the world has ever seen—which CrowdStrike blamed on a buggy security update that shut down systems and incited prolonged chaos in airports, hospitals, and businesses worldwide…

Sentient_Modem ,

Funny that clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I tried this before seeing the .lol domain. Lol

Hildegarde , (edited )

I am illiterate ignore me.

>Senk received a DMCA notice from Cloudflare’s trust and safety team, which was then hosting the parody site.

Cloudflare sent themselves a DMCA takedown notice, instead of just taking down the content from their own web hosting for violating their policies. Weird.

mark ,
@mark@infosec.pub avatar

Cloudflare and Crowdstrike are different companies.

Hildegarde ,

ooooooopppppps someday I will learn to read

Lost_My_Mind ,

Where have I heard that before…

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

While parody sites are not the intended target of these efforts, it’s possible for such sites to be inadvertently impacted. We will review the process and, where appropriate, evolve ongoing anti-fraud activities.

Hmm, I think I’ve heard something like that before…

But it pledged Wednesday to keep software glitches like last week’s from happening again, and to publicly release a more detailed analysis when it becomes available.

The company added that it is developing a new check for its validation system “to guard against this type of problematic content from being deployed in the future.

“Oops!”

NegativeLookBehind ,
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I love this

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