'This could have taken down the entire internet': Global tech meltdown explained
Published 2024-07-19
Pete Ashdown, founder of Utah's oldest internet service provider, XMission, breaks down how exactly a CrowdStrike update to its cyber security agent Falcon left millions of businesses that rely on Microsoft's servers without access to their internet, their data, and their computers, as systems across the planet became suspended in an emergency restart mode (and how it's all being resolved)
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All Comments (21)
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So far, he’s the only one acknowledging that humanity relies too much on the internet.
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“This could’ve taken out the entire internet” is out of context quote. He was talking about the Linux bug from last year that was caught.
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Y2K happened in 2024 LOL
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This is not a normal thing. The implication here is that CrowdStrike sent out an update without properly testing it. That's a DevOps failure.
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There was a time when companies and businesses could fall back on manual/analog technologies to keep things running smoothly. At some point in the past 12 years that changed.
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Time to start a new gig as a Crowdstrike Update Specialist
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It never happened before, globally 🤔
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My paycheck came in late, thanks stupid internet crash
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Crowdstrike failed to crash a single Linux or Apple OS based computer system.
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Everyone affected should sue Crowdstrike. Sue them out of business.
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Pretty simple....dont use the internutz for your business....get back to basics dudes
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The fall of Windows in a singday.
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This is the type of reporter all news media should send out. One that doesn't obviously know the answers to their questions. It make those being interviewed answer in much more open ways.🤔
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This reveals a lot about people. And how they respond in crisis. And it's very sad. People cannot do what they cannot do. I mean it's a global crisis so like you're not the only one. I understand the frustrations but how there anyone attack the employees for something that's out of their control! ...
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entire Internet? are you kidding
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Oh great, they can use their computer but it won't be secure
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Was this assisted by enemy action? MCE? Just a Bug? If it was a bug was it a update and to what system? How widespread and how was it distributed?
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The internet needs a circuit breaker!
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Someone is up to no good as usual
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ISP guy should know the company is crowd strike, the software is falcon.
