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CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines wonβt boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
They make software for both of them also though, IMO they're at fault for sure but so should be Microsoft for making a trash operating system.
Can an OS be bricked?:
A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.[1] The term analogizes the device to a brick's modern technological usefulness.[2]
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No, unless its an embedded OS and it has no external ports.
You can absolutely start writing garbage to bios and brick the mobo firmware.
and the one I was replying to was asking about an OS being bricked, not about the bios or firmware.
AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.
What's the criteria for a Windows machine to be affected? I use Windows but haven't had any issues today.
be a windows based machine protected by crowdstrike as a security service, and received said botched update