751–760 of 1001 posts
WTF is CrowdStrike and why is it affecting so many people and companies? I've never heard of it before. And apparently it isn't anything relevant to all Windows users as it didn't affect any computer of any person I personally know.
This event is predicted in Sydney Dekker’s book “Drift into Failure”, which basically postulates that in order to prevent local failure we setup failure prevention systems that increase the complexity beyond our ability to handle, and introduce systemic failures that are global. It’s a sobering book to read if you ever thought we could make systems fault tolerant.
Basically delegation.
When you see the size if the impact across the world, the number of people who will die because hospital, emergency and logistics systems are down… You don’t need conventional war any more. State actors can just focus on targeting widely deployed “security systems” that will bring down whole economies and bring as much death and financial damage as a missile, while denying any involvement…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092187But it's deeper than that: the industry realizes that, once you get to a certain size, no one can hurt you much. Crowdstrike will not pay a lasting penalty for what has just happen, which means executives will shrug and treat this as a random bolt of lightning.
Too bad ChromeOS seems be on the way out at Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc
Interconnected systems can fail spectacularly in unforeseen ways. Strange that something so obvious is so often dismissed or overlooked.
Due to the scale I think it’s reasonable to state that in all likelihood many people have died because of this. Sure it might be hard to attribute single cases but statistically I would expect to see a general increase in probability. I used to work at MS and didn’t like their 2:1 test to dev ratio or their 0:1 ratio either and wish they spent more work on verification and improved processes instead of relying on tes…
Yet their stock tanked only a couple of dollars. They (and their customers) should face some rather unpleasant lawsuits. If you let others own your systems, you should not be allowed to provide critical infrastructure.
I don't think that companies are going to be held liable at all.