Electronic Frontier FoundationAug 4, 2024
CrowdStrike’s billion-dollar outage is a wake-up call. We need antitrust action now to prevent future tech collapses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture
CrowdStrike, Antitrust, and the Digital Monoculture

Last month’s unprecedented global IT failure should be a wakeup call. Decades of antitrust inaction have made many industries dangerously reliant on the same tools, making such crises inevitable. We must demand regulators break up the digital monocultures that are creating a less competitive, less...

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Show threadEhay2kAug 4, 2024

@eff

Not taking sides here, but if a company has the BEST cybersecurity on the planet available, should they not have a "monopoly" position?

That's a challenge here, innovation on excellent cybersecurity can't be subject to market requirements that other people be allowed to compete.

Your product either works or it doesn't. In CrowdStrike's case, it worked a little bit too well but also because not enough people tested before they deployed it.

Show threadCharlie Br0wnn

@Ehay2k @eff

1) there is no way to prevent errors in software - all software has vulnerabilities

2) 70 percent of all security incidents are caused by human error

3) if everybody has the same software, then all the bad guys will have only one software stack to break into

4) most security software builds on a core of open source non-commercial software because it is superior to commercial software

= a commercial monopoly is bad for everybody

Aug 5, 2024 at 6:51amWeb