Oh yeah, and if you like conspiracy theories - the bad guys are taking notes about how to get us all next time...
No, it wasn't the Democrats attempting to distract from Donald Trump.
And no it wasn't Donald Trumps Fault. (He does have history with CrowdStrike)
The global tech crash was a mishap. But it serves as a dress rehearsal for more sinister possibilitiesFriday afternoon felt a lot like the 12-minute mark in a disaster movie.
Choked airports, crashed payment systems, news anchors improvising, and the sudden ubiquity of Microsoft's now famous blue screen of death, with its strangely ominous sad face.
The difference of course is that in the movie, there's a villain pulling the strings — a hostile foreign power, a money-hungry cyber gang, or even a fanatical cult, intent on bringing entire nations to their knees.
In the version we witnessed yesterday, the culprit was in some ways more dangerous; it was our own systems.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-20/global-tech-outage-mishap-proves-how-exposed-we-are/104120726
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