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?

@cynicalsecurity

it could, but now you're talking about them.

@munin oh, I see, it is more fun to pretend they run on a ZX81 than actually suggest that, in breach of all regulatory requirements and sekurity theatre, they were not running EDR on internal systems running critical ops (which is what I would have recommended)?

@cynicalsecurity

more along the lines of, "hey this would be a good story for publicity and get us press for being the only ones still operating as normal"

@munin oh, I wasn't sufficiently cynical…

@cynicalsecurity

eh, marketers have a different set of priorities.

@cynicalsecurity I mean they do have suppliers of brand new hardware. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112830705848210304
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@Kensan never underestimate the Internet…
@cynicalsecurity I think the impressive part is that DigiKey has 386 CPUs in stock.
@Kensan just goes to show that Intel x86 is an indestructible weed.
@cynicalsecurity Shhhhhhhhh! The same Southwest that had a meltdown two years ago? ;-)
@osxreverser different meltdown, different party ;P
@cynicalsecurity Sloppy IT vs Sloppy IT + Clownstrike :P