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CrowdStrike used Windows. Apple systems were not affected. (Original Post) question everything Jul 2024 OP
PBS Newshour interviewed Bruce Schneier from Harvard University about the recent tech failures. summer_in_TX Jul 2024 #1
From two years ago. ItsjustMe Jul 2024 #2
It bought down every desktop and server Klarkashton Jul 2024 #3
That one person probably shouldn't have tested in production... itzzen Jul 2024 #4
I don't think there are any Apple machine servers. I think they use Linux servers Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2024 #5
this AllaN01Bear Jul 2024 #7
Remember the "cloud" ... CloudWatcher Jul 2024 #6
also the internet is that way too also. AllaN01Bear Jul 2024 #8

summer_in_TX

(3,213 posts)
1. PBS Newshour interviewed Bruce Schneier from Harvard University about the recent tech failures.
Sat Jul 20, 2024, 12:13 AM
Jul 2024
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.

Klarkashton

(2,092 posts)
3. It bought down every desktop and server
Sat Jul 20, 2024, 01:26 AM
Jul 2024

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...
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:49 AM
Jul 2024


CrowdStrike joins the leagues with Cloudflare in companies that to stop doing that, lol

Bernardo de La Paz

(50,917 posts)
5. I don't think there are any Apple machine servers. I think they use Linux servers
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 07:19 AM
Jul 2024

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.

CloudWatcher

(1,923 posts)
6. Remember the "cloud" ...
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:30 PM
Jul 2024

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.

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