ClownStrike

298 of the Fortune 500, 538 of the Fortune 1000, 8 of the top 10 financial services firms, 7 of the top 10 manufacturers, 8 of the top 10 food & beverage companies, 8 of the top 10 auto companies, 43 of the 50 U.S. states, 6 of the top 10 healthcare providers and 8 of the top 10 technology firms

... use a product which can automatically download an update which will render their systems catatonic¹.

Or, you know, an update which gives a bad person free access to them: rendering the systems catatonic isn't the worst thing that could have happened.

And, of course, there is absolutely nothing that says that an equivalent update could not have been deployed on, say, Linux machines, which would have caused even more damage. This is not an OS-choice problem, it's an 'if you think a system like this is a good idea, you should not be running computers' problem.

I mean, seriously. Not only does this mean that all these organisations have a fucking enormous correlated risk (oh, look, what a surprise), but ClownStrike have an enormous target painted on their backs for any malicious actor who wants to take down a really large number of systems. As do all the other clown companies.

Humans are just too stupid to survive, aren't they?