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We are "stuck in a digital monoculture, where decades of anti-competitive practices have created it so that just one system is responsible for so much of what we rely on from everything from airlines to hospitals to schools," EFF’s @falsemirror told Mashable. https://mashable.com/article/crowdstrike-update-fail-explained

How did one CrowdStrike mistake stop the world? We asked 3 experts.

Companies tried to do the right thing. Did it backfire?
Christianna Silva (Mashable)
@Rory Mir
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samiamsam
samiamsam
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i'm assuming it went something like this

IT guy 1: maybe we should do more testing

IT guy 2: nah it will be fine

IT guy 1: you're probably right

the single female IT employee: ummm, guys

all IT guys: chicks are such downers

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Falcon Darkstar
Falcon Darkstar
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yup. Same story brewing with other security vendors. Tenable could soon take down the financial world with one similar bad update to their agent.
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Daniel Marks
Daniel Marks
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No one wants to take responsibility and the eventual blame for security, and the consensus settles on canned "solutions" like Crowdstrike. It's just like no one was ever fired for choosing Microsoft.
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MarvinFreeman
MarvinFreeman
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I think he is spot on, generally, with his comments on the lack of antitrust enforcement. But #crowdstrike has competitors, right?

I also couldn't help but think, again, of a similar problem hitting the monoculture of much of our food supply.

#crowdstrike
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Kroos
Kroos
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the watchdogs have been asleep for so long it will be a challenge for them to ever wake up again.
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