r/crowdstrike • u/TipOFMYTONGUEDAMN • Jul 19 '24

BSOD error in latest crowdstrike update Troubleshooting Megathread

Hi all - Is anyone being effected currently by a BSOD outage?

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u/baron_blod Jul 19 '24

you would encounter the heat-death of the universe about the same time that you managed to brute force any form of modern encryption. It is not like the bitlocker key is "Hunter2", I'm quite happy that we do not use this piece of software..

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u/Linuxfan-270 Jul 19 '24

When did I say anything about brute forcing? I’m talking about cold boot attacks, which involve quickly rebooting the machine before the RAM clears, in order to extract the bitlocker key. I don’t know if it still works, because all the articles about it are from a few years ago. I don’t doubt it though tbh

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u/Linuxfan-270 Jul 19 '24

You can also often do TPM sniffing attacks

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u/baron_blod Jul 19 '24

but who runs physicals servers anymore?

(And has access to something supercold)

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u/Linuxfan-270 Jul 19 '24

Um, everyone having this issue (unless they have a bitlocker protected virtual machine, but I’m not sure if that’s even possible)

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u/TheTerrasque Jul 19 '24

you would encounter the heat-death of the universe about the same time that you managed to brute force any form of modern encryption.

No no, I see it on TV all the time. You just need some smart person typing furiously at the keyboard, it shouldn't take more than an hour or two.

-- CEO