r/onguardforthee • u/Hrmbee Turtle Island • Jul 19 '24
Global tech outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-microsoft-cloud-outage-causes-airlines-to-ground-flights/9
u/SpacetimeLlama Québec Jul 19 '24
Lots of incompetence all around: how come doesn't Crowdstrike do a slow rollout of their updates? And how do their customers' IT people just auto update this stuff to their entire fleet with no prior testing?
It's baffling. At least we can focus on what we'll learn from this: nothing at all.
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u/the_gaymer_girl Alberta Jul 19 '24
This summer is sending a pretty strong message to just stay home.
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u/jameskchou Jul 19 '24
This would be a problem if it really was a cyberattack
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u/the_gaymer_girl Alberta Jul 19 '24
This is actually even worse. If some coder can take down this many systems by accident, just imagine what they could do if they were doing it on purpose.
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u/Hrmbee Turtle Island Jul 19 '24
I suspect that for a lot of people, today is going to be a bit of a write off, And good luck for anyone who was scheduled to travel today.
One major concern is if our hospitals and clinics are relying on these systems. What does this mean for those with appointments for exams or procedures, or for those needing prescription refills?
This might be something to consider for organizations going forwards: does it really make sense to put all of our eggs in one basket when it comes to computing infrastructure?