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Not really though. Whether they should continue to exist into the future should depend on if the expected positive value of their services in that future exceeds the expected damage from having a big meltdown every once in a while. That some of their devs made a fuckup doesn't mean the entire product line is now without merit.

Killing the company because they made a mistake doesn't just throw away a ton of learned lessons (because the devs will probably be scattered around the industry where their newly acquired domain knowledge will be less valuable) but also forces a lot of companies to spend resources changing their antivirus scanners. For all we know, Crowdstrike might never fuck up again after this and forcing that change would burn hundreds of millions for basically no reason.




"Whether they should continue to exist into the future should depend on if the expected positive value of their services in that future exceeds the expected damage from having a big meltdown every once in a while"

I don't think that's right, since it ignores externalities.

You want to create a system where every company is incentivized to make positive security decisions. If your response to a fuckup of unprecedented scale is just "they learned their lesson, they probably won't do that again", then the message these companies receive is that it is okay to neglect proper security procedures, because you get one global economic meltdown for free.




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