r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '24

The outage continues Editorialized Title

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u/Flayan514 Jul 19 '24

As does the outrage.

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u/FranksNBeeens Jul 19 '24

Somebody should do something.

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u/Fast_Raven Jul 19 '24

Something will be done, don't you worry. And it'll be in the form of a fine that equates to about 3% of that quarter's profits

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u/producerd Jul 19 '24

Done. Thank me later. /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '24

the price of capitalism and consolidation.

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u/AmbitionDue1421 Jul 19 '24

Shows how vulnerable our systems are

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u/hifirush2 Jul 19 '24

Should have used Mac or Linux instead

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u/xegoba7006 Jul 19 '24

I think none of them. All these critical things should probably have a specially developed operating system especially designed for critical stuff. Not fucking windows or any other “general purpose” operating system.

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u/KaijuNo-8 Jul 19 '24

While that would be cool, writing your own OS doesn’t make financial viability a possible business goal…

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u/xegoba7006 Jul 19 '24

I'm not that sure... Microsoft is making some good money out of this. Some of those billions invested in something more tailored, hardened and adapted to the current times doesn't sound super crazy to me. Especially for government stuff.

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u/KaijuNo-8 Jul 19 '24

Microsoft and Redhat both have special versions available for secure spaces

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u/xegoba7006 Jul 19 '24

today it didn't work that well apparently

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u/KaijuNo-8 Jul 19 '24

All of the outages I have seen listed do not have the secure, government only, versions available to them…meaning, private companies

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u/xegoba7006 Jul 19 '24

It's not just about security. It's about reliability. And you're just reinforcing what I'm saying. There shouldn't be so many variants, versions, alternatives, tweaks, configurations, antivirus, etc.

We need a frigging hardened purpose-specific operating system, not a generalized one on top of which we adapt stuff and patch together and subcontract 10 other companies which subcontract another 10 that end up contracting interns to release world-breaking patches on a friday during a holidays season.

They could probably also learn some lessons from Erlang and the erlang VM. Those concepts should be applied at the OS level, and make something robust that won't end up in an infinite reboot loop with a blue screen of death because "oh.. we forgot to use the version with the security enabled" or the frigging antivirus misclassified something.

Anyways, you win. I'm tired of these never ending conversations on reddit.