Sujet : Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
De : mjackson (at) *nospam* alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Jackson)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.comics.stripsDate : 23. Jul 2024, 19:55:15
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On 7/23/2024 12:23 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
On 23 Jul 2024 12:23:01 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
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Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident.
Not personally. Computers were down all day at our youngest son's workplace (Police Accountability Board); the one person I know who was flying that day got here from JFK OK (after a series of earlier cancellations that kept her from getting here from Amsterdam on Monday).
People trust computers too much.
True, but what's more relevant here is that people *rely* too much on computers not failing, either through poor risk assessment or the drive for "efficiency" (see below).
A few more of these things and the gummint will step in to /make/
computers trustworthy. Talk about nightmares.
Well, absent a countervailing force the capitalist imperative discourages carrying the cost of robustness, and eventually eliminates it entirely. Do you have a suggestion other than regulation?
-- Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov
xkcd: CrowdStrike
Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
