Good item from the #CBC that asks the RIGHT question in light of the #Microsoft / #CrowdSstrike outage.
Businesses, governments and large institutions are dependent on a monopoly monoculture of a single operating system running on about 75% of all desktop/laptop computers.
A glitch like the CrowdStrike glitch can impact them all. This needs to change.
Technical details of #CrowdSstrike bug by a former #windows developper.
Explication technique du bug crowdstrike par un des anciens développeurs de windows.
A #CrowdSstrike offensive summary (update):
* we know Flacon updates are not verified prior to being enabled
* we know that they don't do staged updates
* we know a lot of large customer names
* we know the DR plans (or lack thereof) of said large customers
* we know the systemic reactivity
Learned opinion: it does not look good.
For those involved with the darker side of cybersecurity this is a monstrously useful set of data points.
LeftyLabourTechToronto
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