Vincent Flibustier’s photograph went viral inside minutes and already has almost 4 lakh likes.
New Delhi:
“What’s CrowdStrike? Why is my Home windows pc exhibiting the Blue Display of Dying? Who’s accountable for the biggest-ever IT outage?”
These are questions which have dominated conversations throughout the globe after a Microsoft error introduced Home windows computer systems to its heels. Whereas it’s now recognized that an replace to an anti-virus program ‘Falcon Sensor’ by CrowdStrike was accountable for the large worldwide outage, folks have nonetheless been questioning how such a faulty replace was allowed to be launched and who was behind it.
Step in Vincent Flibustier, an X consumer parading to be a Crowdstrike worker. Vincent broke the web with an altered, AI-generated photograph of him outdoors the CrowdStrike workplace together with the caption, “First day at Crowdstrike, pushed just a little replace and taking the afternoon off.”
First day at Crowdstrike, pushed just a little replace and taking the afternoon off ✌️ pic.twitter.com/bOs4qAKwu0
— Vincent Flibustier 👽 (@vinceflibustier) July 19, 2024
The photograph went viral inside minutes and already has almost 4 lakh likes and has been shared by over 36,000 customers.
Two hours later, Flibustier posted one other replace – the corporate had fired him. He additionally shared a brief video the place he takes ‘accountability’ for inflicting the worldwide outage.
Vincent Flibustier additionally modified his X (former Twitter) bio to accompany the parody. His bio stated, “Former Crowdstrike worker, fired for an unfair cause, solely modified 1 line of code to optimize. Searching for a job as Sysadmin.”
Whereas he was making an attempt to make a joke about it, hundreds on-line purchased his satire and thought he was the one accountable for the Blue Display of Dying (BSOD) on their system. Airways, banks, TV channels, and several other different industries had been scrambling to cope with the difficulty, and folks on social media went into overdrive after discovering the ‘perpetrator’.
Whereas a number of customers praised him for guaranteeing that they do not should work on a Friday, some posted abusive messages about him.
The reality: Vincent is a satirical author who runs Nordpresse, a Belgian parody information web site. He appeared as a visitor on France TV, the place he remarked, “Individuals are drawn to tales that affirm their preconceptions.”
Explaining additional why folks on the web instantly latched on to his joke, he stated, “No perpetrator named but, I convey it on a platter, folks wish to have a perpetrator. The perpetrator appears fully silly, he’s happy with his stupidity, he takes his afternoon off on the primary day of labor. This falls proper into an enormous buzz wherein folks completely have to have new info, and a pretend is by nature new, you will not learn it anyplace else.”
He additionally stated that the put up was shared by those that knew it was a joke, however the amplification despatched it right into a zone the place folks took each phrase of the tweet actually.
Hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the globe are nonetheless going through points, with each Microsoft and CrowdStrike making an attempt to resolve the difficulty on the earliest.
The newest model of its Falcon Sensor software program was meant to make CrowdStrike purchasers’ programs safer in opposition to hacking by updating the threats it defends in opposition to. Nevertheless defective code within the replace recordsdata resulted in one of the vital widespread tech outages in recent times for firms utilizing Microsoft’s Home windows working system.
Issues got here to mild shortly after the replace was rolled out on Friday, and customers posted footage on social media of computer systems with blue screens displaying error messages. These are recognized within the business as “blue screens of demise.”
