[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[David]

On 20/7/24 16:22, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Microsoft suggests turning it off and on again 15 times .. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/as-the-world-wakes-up-to-a-digital-pandemic-microsoft-suggests-turning-it-off-and-on-again-15-times

/Scientific American/ have republished an informative article on this problem at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worldwide-tech-outage-started-with-defective-crowdstrike-update-to-microsoft/  with permission of /The Conversation/ where it originally appeared.

I suggest a much more serious systemic & strategic question concerns how a large part of the developed world was brought to a confused standstill by a shared single point of failure.  No doubt national security departments all over the world are considering the question.

Haven't Microsoft considered the possibility of such an event?

The UEFI boot system which has replaced BIOS in most Linux systems backs up pre- and post-update images before & after any update, so a known good image can be booted immediately there's a problem.

_David Lochrin_