funny thing is I, and probably most people, had never even heard that there was something called “CrowdStrike” until Friday of last week
I’m a Formula One fan. The Mercedes team are sponsored by them. You see their logo every time you see an on board shot of the cars.
I had no idea until this weekend.
End of season, at least, or whenever the livery/sponsorship contract runs out. Mercedes isn’t liable to care too much - it’s just a livery.
Same for me with Solar Winds, Equifax, SVB and Ashley Madison.
Weird to think that some kind of major catastrophe in the future could again be caused by some company that exists right now, but am unaware of.
Are you not in the US? Equifax is a credit bureau and if you’ve never heard of them, you never needed credit or you’re not from the US.
The other three, I’ve only heard of Ashley Madison because they had a very aggressive ad campaign before ad blockers became ubiquitous. One could say it was ads like theirs that made ad blocking a requirement.
