Jul 19, 2024

Let’s talk about….the Global Computer Crisis

A massive outage of Windows-based computers has impacted systems all over the world. Doctors’ surgeries, airlines, train stations, television stations, payment platforms – virtually all sectors of human society have been impacted. Traffic is backing up, flights are grounded.

So far Microsoft is blaming a “third party”, and ruled out a cyber attack. In fact, the “third party” has been named as CrowdStrike, a company specializing in safe-guarding systems against cyber attacks.

So that’s either highly ironic…or something else.

Allegedly the fault was due to a new software update, CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz has already begun the public mea culpa, but at the same time warned it wouldn’t be a quick fix:

Crowdstrike’s Mr Kurtz, speaking to NBC News, said it was the firm’s “mission” to make sure every one of its customers recovered completely from the outage. But he added that this would not happen automatically and “it could be some time” before everything was up and running as before.

In the meantime, it looks like travel is off the table for a lot of people. Whoops.

You’d be forgiven for thinking this is yet another fake crisis designed to disrupt everyday life and normalise these types of restrictions. Or maybe it’s just a symptom of over-reliance on automation.

Real or not, contrived or not – this should bring home to everyone, once again, the importance of cash, hard copies and self-reliance.

But what do you think?

Is this real or not?
Do you believe the official explanation?
Has it impacted your devices or life so fair?
Are you an Apple, Microsoft or Linux user?
Are people too reliant on computers?
How you do you protect yourself and your data from “accidents” or “cyber attacks” in the future