Perhaps I read it wrongly but "Southwest Airlines not being affected by #crowdstike" could not just be "we did not run #crowdstrike on critical operations systems"?
Sort of easier than the Windows 3.11 story?
I’m gonna need Ed to do one of these every day to get my blood pumping whilst at the gym.
I talked about #EdZitron on our recent podcast but here’s a special one he did about #crowdstike. Glorious anger and clarity. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3v70nxeolWtqxgG6pPpHo6?si=51e51b34ed8948cd&utm_medium=share&utm_source=linktree&nd=1&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA82PyQ7CMAxEvyYcW9qUskgVQmI7cuOIQuLSiDQ2WRD8PSkCvgHJB%2FuNR5rpQiC%2FyHNPGHT7zARRZrS95ktyqKIMDRLYESurNhpzis403WBhfMXKbZpBzr5uiX1CQNqjgrTx%2B3RsH4DmGG6Py66mA%2B2xZnzrNePrSQGT4swrULN5NZOKlXUM%2FakHpWOfdN8JBx%2FoMToJCQ7hggN4RxLGnIW8%2FlGsxK1KdzFi000LIkQHzdsxANkJa8E0vxLfD3QXYbV8ARl01JSOAQAA&product=open&%24full_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F3v70nxeolWtqxgG6pPpHo6%3Fsi%3D51e51b34ed8948cd%26utm_medium%3Dshare%26utm_source%3Dlinktree&~feature=share&~channel=linktree&feature=organic&_branch_match_id=1320479699565211950
Listen to this episode from Better Offline on Spotify. On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company called CrowdStrike - and in this emergency Better Offline dispatch, Ed Zitron walks you through exactly what happened, why it's so bad, and why both CrowdStrike and Microsoft executives should face criminal prosecution for such a catastrophic managerial failure. These are the dark consequences of the growth-at-all-costs movement. Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials - http://www.twitter.com/edzitron instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social https://www.threads.net/@edzitron LINKS: https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
8.5M may sound a lot, but it also sounds not that bad.
Microsoft confirms that rebooting the system multiple times, in some cases, might be enough to let the Crowdstrike Falcon agent to update successfully. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-compute-blog/recovery-options-for-azure-virtual-machines-vm-affected-by/ba-p/4196798
Wow! 😲CrowdStrike’s CSO sold $1.5M worth of stock right before the outage today!I repeat, the Chief Security Officer sold $1.5M worth of stock!https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-insiders-...
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