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Related: About this forumCrowdStrike used Windows. Apple systems were not affected.
Still hard to believe that one system failure can affect so many..
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CrowdStrike used Windows. Apple systems were not affected. (Original Post)
question everything
Jul 2024
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PBS Newshour interviewed Bruce Schneier from Harvard University about the recent tech failures.
summer_in_TX
Jul 2024
#1
I don't think there are any Apple machine servers. I think they use Linux servers
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2024
#5
summer_in_TX
(3,166 posts)1. PBS Newshour interviewed Bruce Schneier from Harvard University about the recent tech failures.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-faulty-software-update-sparked-tech-disruptions-worldwide
Basically it's a matter of economics. All the companies have incentives to run lean (he didn't say it but I think meant saving money and answering to stockholders and boards).
PBS asked great questions: what would it take to ensure things like this and other recent outages don't keep happening. Comes down to redundancy which costs money. He didn't think the tech industry would fix it.
No regulatory agency would do much, he thought. Only legislation could make companies spend the money to be resilient. But what constituency would push for that?
He was pretty sure nobody would be held to account and conditions for these things to keep happening wouldn't improve. But he did point to a path forward if anyone pushed for it.
Basically it's a matter of economics. All the companies have incentives to run lean (he didn't say it but I think meant saving money and answering to stockholders and boards).
PBS asked great questions: what would it take to ensure things like this and other recent outages don't keep happening. Comes down to redundancy which costs money. He didn't think the tech industry would fix it.
No regulatory agency would do much, he thought. Only legislation could make companies spend the money to be resilient. But what constituency would push for that?
He was pretty sure nobody would be held to account and conditions for these things to keep happening wouldn't improve. But he did point to a path forward if anyone pushed for it.
ItsjustMe
(11,605 posts)2. From two years ago.
Klarkashton
(1,943 posts)3. It bought down every desktop and server
In the business I work for. We can't catch a break we got hit with a horrible ransom attack last year so we invested in CrowdStrike. It's 100s of PCs each one takes an effort to fix and the servers are worse.
itzzen
(5 posts)4. That one person probably shouldn't have tested in production...
CrowdStrike joins the leagues with Cloudflare in companies that to stop doing that, lol
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,829 posts)5. I don't think there are any Apple machine servers. I think they use Linux servers
The hidden assumption in your title seems to be that personal computers or phones were affected. Very few were affected because ordinary people (not server farm operators or corporate IT systems) don't use CrowdStrike on their PCs, except possibly very few.
AllaN01Bear
(22,981 posts)7. this
CloudWatcher
(1,922 posts)6. Remember the "cloud" ...
Remember that the cloud is just someone else's computer. And the people running the cloud computers can be just as stupid as anyone else.
AllaN01Bear
(22,981 posts)8. also the internet is that way too also.