The recent CrowdStrike crash took place at the intersection of bad cybersecurity and bad cloud computing. The headlines showed the world what many of us have long warned about — that concentrating power with a handful of tech titans is dangerous and can have devastating real-world consequences. It didn’t take a cyberattack to cause this global crisis — just a simple mistake. One faulty update from CrowdStrike affected businesses, governments, hospitals, and airlines. The issue only affected certain Windows devices, yet it sent out ripples impacting a huge number of other systems as a result of our dependency on a…
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