An incredibly long article to basically say “we didn’t test it”. Hmmm… #crowdstrike

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

"The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power..." @pluralistic

https://dice.camp/@pteryx/112831326650512796#cloud #crowdstrike#tech #business

@mariafarrell And that's exactly what we're seeing with #Crowdstrike. A tiny problem affects huge chunks of worldwide infrastructure.

Building tech systems this way is a choice we don't need to make. Instead, we can build in the public interest:
https://berjon.com/public-interest-internet/

The thing I hope is alarming people about today's #CrowdStrike outage is that if the company can take out that much of America's tech infrastructure by accident with a single buggy update, our adversaries can do the same on purpose with a supply-chain attack against CrowdStrike, and that one probably wouldn't be as quick to recover from. #infosec

@Sou
some may ask why they didn't use ai 😂

"Whiteboards being used at
@belfastairport
as all the screens are blue. Passenger Martin McElroy took this, and told us that it's like “the dark ages, but to be fair they’re making it work, which you have to give them credit for.”

#outage #crowdstrike #microsoft

There's a certain irony in a cyber security company accidentally deploying the most effective cyber attack we've seen in recent memory.

#crowdstrike #bsod

Nobody got fired for buying #Microsoft and #Crowdstrike ...

that's because the HR systems are down.