The event was instructive for how we understand the privacy and security of the devices that we depend on every day, and the effect of a large scale outage has on our modern life.

This incident was a bug, but could a malicious attack happen on the same scale? 🐛

The CrowdStrike outage highlights the benefit of more transparency about security vulnerabilities and patches to increase people's trust and the robustness of system architecture.

It also showed that the consolidation of power in Big Tech companies creates over-reliance on single points of failure.

Diversity creates strength.

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We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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🔧 And never forget: updates, including auto-updates, are a good thing for device security.

Don't turn them off.

For more of our thoughts on the CrowdStrike incident, take a look at our retrospective.

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CrowdStrike: What the 2024 outage reveals about security

What happened?On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released an update to its CrowdStrike Falcon software that ultimately caused 8.5 million computers running

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