[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[Marghanita da Cruz]

no only the risk of not using MS products!

On 21/7/24 11:55, David wrote:
> 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?
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> 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_
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