[HN Gopher] Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Syst...
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       Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Systems Have Become
        
       Author : trauco
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-07-20 20:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | lambdaone wrote:
       | They've been this fragile for some considerable time. We've just
       | been lucky, over and over again, that nothing of this seriousness
       | has happened before.
        
       | Baguette5242 wrote:
       | It's not a question of fragile, it's a question of constantly
       | bypassing the security that is supposed to be in place.
       | 
       | I can perfectly understand that my company refuses me to install
       | an app on my laptop because it may cause security concerns (it my
       | case, it was Tencent's WeChat app). What I don't understand is
       | why I can't install my apps (which are very "normal" third party
       | applications) on my company laptop, while at the same time
       | there's apparently no issue to grant insane privileges to a third
       | party application that allows god knows who to push updates
       | without any check and literally brick workstations.
       | 
       | Regardless of anti-virus, threat detection, online games anti-
       | cheat or whatever, no third party applications should be able to
       | push updates over the air without the user being warned and
       | consenting. period.
       | 
       | Another thing that also need to be highlighted is why everyone
       | runs Windows ? We have all seen the pictures of the displays in
       | the subways stations or the advertisement displays, screens
       | showing the gates numbers at the airports etc... Does this kind
       | of tool really requires a paid MS license to fulfill its purpose
       | ? I mean, why MS Windows is necessary to display the number of a
       | boarding gate & flight information in an airport ? Why not using
       | a Raspberry Pi or something ? And most importantly, why a display
       | showing the gate number in an airport has to be connected to the
       | Internet ?
        
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