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BBC reporting "Mass worldwide IT outage"

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Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks
Also Sky News is down and trains are being cancelled.

Something to do with Microsoft's cloud? Could it turn out to be a weakness rather than a strength? Take out the cloud and you take out everything.
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The whole world is reliant on Windows...
We're massively vulnerable to this kind of thing...
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Maybe use Linux but as this Cloudflare thing probably uses Windoze then you can't. I can't really understand Linux but I would probably be able to learn it if necessary.
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Oh dear, bad day for Crowdstrike! Their overnight update broke all Windows systems it's installed on and it's installed on a lot.

Hard to comprehend the incompetence at work here, *nothing* should have had a global automatic rollout without extensive testing which would have identified this problem. Did someone just not do their job... or was it an inside job?
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Blue screen of death sums Windows up exactly. This will be the new normal.
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This is really a Crowdstrike problem not a Microsoft/Windows problem.

Largest IT outage in history. Until the next one. No one is talking about 'bad actors', but I think it's too early to rule out the idea that Crowdstrike themselves haven't been compromised.
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Latest victims include, emergency call centers in Alaska, Morrisons supermarkets, card payments and home delivery, A major port in Poland, and Ladbrooks bookmakers
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Crowdstrike not Cloudflare - whatever that is - my mistake.

I read a book about Microsoft that said if they cannot solve a problem in a day they simply move on and make an update or patch later on to solve it.

Apparently it affected Australia, supermarkets self service checkouts, flights etc, but I did not notice anything and had no issues paying for anything. World of Tanks was also unaffected which was a good thing.
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