CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
7 points
no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.
Other damage being an invalid driver
4 points
I wouldn’t consider something to be bricked if it can be fixed by simply restoring a backup or reinstalling the OS.
4 points
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soft bricked is a subset of bricked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)#Soft_brick
