On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, 12:40 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 03:27:17PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > And even you Hans, leave out the major, all encompassing, reason for the > > lack of market share, which is that most business that have a > computerized > > system to run things also value what their MBA says. And since there is > no > > one to sue to cover their personal butt in case the system goes south > like > > cloudflare has in the last 3 days, M$ & cloudflare are a brick and morter > > legal target they can sic the legal team onto. > > First: it wasn't cloudflare -- it was CrowdStrike (a sec firm, of all > things!) > > Second: nobody's going to sue them. Guess what? The big ones have lawyers, > lots of them. And their best protected tech is "law tech". They wouldn't > be skimping on quality if it didn't pay off. > > Case in point: Solarwinds. 2020, they had a row of high-level attacks > which knocked off their customer's customers (AFAIR, one third of > Sweden's supermarkets had to close for three to four days, among many > other things). > They were sued for $26 million, that's it. >
Every time I meet or work for someone who is still running SolarWinds products (many many :-) I remind them of this: SolarWinds' source-code repositories were broken into, the source-code modified by the intruders, and their changes checked back in like good software developers :-) Then the corporation sent you that software and you paid for it. How do you feel? Suppose that the same thing was done to the software in your car? Would you drive it again? Or in the aircraft you will fly-in next month? Would you take that plane? Cheers > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds#2019%E2%80%932020_supply_chain_attacks > > -- > t >
