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How A Cheap Barcode Scanner Helped Fix A Company's CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from the Register: Not long after Windows PCs and servers at the Australian limb of audit and tax advisory Grant Thornton started BSODing last Friday, senior systems engineer Rob Woltz remembered a small but important fact: When PCs boot, they conside...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from the Register: Not long after Windows PCs and servers at the Australian limb of audit and tax advisory Grant Thornton started BSODing last Friday, senior systems engineer Rob Woltz remembered a small but important fact: When PCs boot, they consider barcode scanners no differently to keyboards. [...] The firm had the BitLocker keys for all its PCs, so Woltz and colleagues wrote a script that turned them into barcodes that were displayed on a locked-down management server's desktop. Woltz, Watson, and the team scaled the solution – which meant buying more scanners at more office supplies stores around Australia.
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