The Crowdstrike Incident: A Dispath

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Published 2024-07-19
Normally, I wouldn't do a 'breaking news' type of video but the Crowdstrike incident, still unfolding, is so large that comment is warranted. Of course, there is a large technical aspect to this but in this video, I invite you to think more broadly about the impact of monopoly on global systems resilience. The Internet was designed to be resilient against failure: corporate monopolies are breaking this.

References


History of the Internet

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet


Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline

www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-c…

CrowdStrike Windows Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next

www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/07/19/cr…
All Comments (6)
  • @eli5346
    It’s not just monopoly that leads to fragility. But efficiency even more broadly, by eliminating redundancy, also leads to fragile systems.
  • @cayalwalker4541
    We finally got the Y2K we've all been waiting for! Why couldn't we pull it off 24 years ago? Well, the only way for the poor CrowdStrike CTO to bluescreen all his customers would be to stamp and mail 2 million CD-ROMs. On the base we have considerably faster network links that stay online all the time instead of dialing in, and then kind of superstructurally we've accepted things like silent over-the-air updates, corporate spyware and MDM, and cloud dependency, which have catalyzed software monopoly formation not just in the business sense, but right down to the ecology and diversity of the code actively running within our machines.
  • @MrBadjohn69
    Evidently thoses Y2K patches finally failed. Excellent work MicroSoft.
  • @ArvindhMani
    The music is too distracting when combined with the fact that you talk a bit softly at times.