Southwest airlines was unaffected. Their IT systems run on Windows 3.1 and 95.
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Let’s take a monocultural OS-stack and put a monocultural security stack on top of it.
To round it up, the security stack install countless drivers and kernel modules that make it difficult to uninstall, needs to talk to the internet all the time and there’s no way to stage updates.
Now, your test environment is your prod environment.
What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out, quite a lot.
NB: my Linux and FreeBSD servers were not affected, I doubt there’s an agent for BSD anyway.
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According to Elon Musk and other trolls in the right, this event is also related to DEI policies at Crowdstrike.
Typical for Macroschrott & co to use users as beta testers!
And the world takes it, as if there is nothing to do about it and no one pays any compensation for the damages … typical of this all-digital world …
“It is a technical problem”! Yes, but there is always a human, an organisation behind it and they should be accountable for their mistakes!
Crowstrike is apparently a great tool and provides lots of insight.
Too bad that most of the guys our department hired are basically fresh off the boat and seem to be unable to get the big picture.
But Crowdstrike ticks the box of “we did something”.
Needless to say that apart from Elon, nobody’s going to uninstall it here.
They’re rather going to double down on it.
I see it slightly differently, its a wake-up call to companies around the world to have contingencies in place and not put all their eggs into one basket. I remember the Whatsapp outage a few years ago which took down Facebook etc… Lots of companies who relied on FB for their business suffered a day or two of interuption.
I wish it were true. But I believe that the next “wake-up” call is just around the corner and that it will keep hapening.
- Cyber agencies in the UK and Australia are urging people to be vigilant to fake emails, calls and websites that pretend to be official.
What gets me is the airlines are asking for compensation, when they are the worst offenders for leaving customers in the lurch, often deliberately for economic reasons with little comeback.
I’ll be happy if crowdstrike give them a free drinks coupon and a $25 taxi voucher.
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My recent experience with Easyjet was surprising pleasant. My evening flight from Gatwick to Geneva was cancelled and using their app I was able to rebook on the next morning flight as well as a hotel room. Cost of meals and some amount of compensation for the inconvenience is also possible to claim online (although haven’t bothered to do that).
According to the BBC it’s happening again …
Technology giant Microsoft has apologised after thousands of people across the world reported issues with its products, ranging from email service Outlook to the hit game Minecraft.
Downdetector, which tracks websites, showed thousands had reported problems on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident comes less than two weeks after a major global IT outage left over eight million computers using Microsoft systems inaccessible, impacting healthcare and travel, after a flawed software update by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Microsoft said it had implemented a fix for the problem which “shows improvement”, and it will monitor the situation “to ensure full recovery”.
But it has separately told people it has “no ETA” for how long the issue would take to resolve.
Not necessarily, one wrong punctuation and the shit hits the fan.
(Any language restrictions on SF? 
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I remember watching a discussion with (I think) Ray Kurzweil about the internet becoming sentient.
It’s only a matter of time!
One thing he said that stuck was that systems would begin to do strange and unexpected things when it starts.
It knows you were going to say that …
