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I was like 😱 when I first heard about #Crowdstrike last Friday. Then I noticed that I wasn't surprised. I omgied about all the passengers stuck in the airports, about sysadmins in the datacenters, but not about how this possibly could happen. Now I think that it's good that it blew up this spectacularly compared to the actual damage. The public must know how fragile the infrastructure is that we're trying to push all our decision makings onto. Now we know that we need more resilience now.
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Craig Nicol
Craig Nicol
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@Binder I admire your optimism, but world trade ground to a crawl thanks to 1 ship in the Suez a couple of years ago and there's been no real change in the physical supply chains.
@Shannon Prickett
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Json Doh
Json Doh
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@craignicol @Binder
Good point, good point. Yeah, it takes more than just one incident to shift the political will in any direction.

We were lucky that both were stupid accidents and not some malicious attacks by an adversary nation state. Instead of passenger airlines they could bluescreen a power grid or something.

@Shannon Prickett @Craig Nicol
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Craig Nicol
Craig Nicol
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@Binder well yes, just ask Iran about StuxNet or Ukraine about NotPetya. Definitely not an unrealistic scenario if someone was determined enough.

But like in the physical supply chains, redundancy and quality control are removed in the name of efficiency. Because no-one picks up the bill for externalities

@Shannon Prickett
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