The "x viewing" has just mistakenly been copied in with the original title.
Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think, as it is a live BBC page, the title is changing over time? It is now "Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage spreads, with airlines, media and banks hit"
There's no 74935 on the page? And other submissions match the title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002710
I think you’ve accidentally remapped ‘.’ to ‘?’ On your keyboard.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no 74935 on the page? And other submissions match the title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002710
I’m really confused about the line of questioning here. Do you think it’s more likely that the submitter has purposely put a random number at the start, or that they’re telling the truth and there’s something that you’re not seeing?
It's the view counter above the headline. C&P error
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#16I always thought crowdstrike type software was a scary piece of software.
It would make the perfect target for an attack. High privleged and used everywhere.
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#17It is scary if all the core infrastructure is based on windows.
It not neccesarily is. If the gate agent uses a windows laptop, the core infrastructure (servers) might not be windows, but if the laptop doesnt work its still "down" even if the servers are fine.
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#18I always thought crowdstrike type software was a scary piece of software. It would make the perfect target for an attack. High privleged and used everywhere.
All these endpoint protection solutions do complex things in the lowest levels of the OS and inside the kernel. Their MO is to inspect, intercept, block and/or modify calls made by other software on the system.
We used to have a name for software like that in the 1990's. We called them rootkits.
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#19It is scary if all the core infrastructure is based on windows.
This lack of sovereignty is alarming in a lot of domains.
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#20That's not the title? Likely related to Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update) (184 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
Another large parallel discussion thread: