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How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2024-07-25

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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Grant Thornton Australia streamlined recovery from the CrowdStrike Windows BSOD outage by converting BitLocker recovery keys into barcodes on a secured management server and using inexpensive barcode scanners to input the 48-character keys as keyboard input, enabling rapid, safe restoration of hundreds of PCs and over 100 servers without distributing keys to end users.

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