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Do the global CrowdStrike and Microsoft outages signal the need to end our reliance on big tech?


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So one guy wants does an update and then every plane in the world is grounded... something about this is not right. Pretty remarkable that these global companies that power the world do not have a back up plan, except for a manual reboot of their own system.

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I reckon the lawyers are going to have a field day over this exercise. It's going to create a mad rush of contract re-reading.

 

Not every plane in the world was grounded, various airlines were affected in various ways. Some of the airlines kept flying, probably the ones who didn't employ the Crowdstrike Falcon platform.

But eventually, the lack of functioning of other critical support areas (banking etc.,) would probably make them grind to a halt sooner rather than later, if the problem hadn't been fixed rapidly.

 

The Gubbmint will be looking at "criticality" now, no doubt - especially seeing as the Gubbmint Australian Signals Directorate was a user of the Crowdstrike Falcon platform.

 

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