This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash.

Links

• Read our ⁠in-depth article⁠ about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/falcon-sensor-issue-use-to-target-crowdstrike-customers/
• ⁠Find more about the 911 outages⁠ across several US states: https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-it-outage-911-lines-down-parts-of-us-havoc-2024-7 -⁠ CrowdStrike's own review of the problem⁠: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/falcon-sensor-issue-use-to-target-crowdstrike-customers/
• Our podcast on the ⁠XZ exploit⁠: https://media.privacyinternational.org/w/bPG9prVDnsKeN1WjotKaVH
• Facebook VPN exploitation: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
• The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio