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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Is there a chance that this makes organisations move to Linux?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

Windows usage isn't the cause of dysfunction in corporate IT but a symptom of it. All you would get is badly managed Linux systems compromised by bloated insecure commercial security/management software.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not really. This isn’t a Windows problem. This is a faulty software problem. People can write faulty software on Linux too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I guess they would want some cybersecurity software like Crowdstrike in either case? If so, this could probably have happened on any system, as it's a bug in third party software that crashes the computer.

Not that I know much about this, but if this leads to a push towards Linux it would be if companies already wanted to make the switch, but were unwilling because they thought they needed Crowdstrike specifically. This might lead them to consider alternative cybersecurity software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You'd think maybe not being reliant on a 90 billion dollar company to un-fuck security would be a bigger deal than it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No because Windows Indoctrination starts with Academia.

There will have to be heavy monetary losses before IT is forced to leave their golden goose that keeps them employed with "problems" to "fix" that soak up hours each.

But maybe they will notice the monetary losses and competitors not using their trash will pull ahead -- that will get their attention. Still they require the cognition to understand the problem and select a solution and the Linux Jungle is hard for corporate minds to navigate without smart IT help.