Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:23:46 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <95mv9jpkr8usskbq56cgfu20mn65b3n8v6@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:23:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cbf9539cf985ed3ea2139f0721735f1a"; logging-data="1359649"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/1RUputGMYnxDwZ11t0g3PMGrtng1xZRg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sxs8o7tMfB3KoFljGjGPsuMJj0I= Bytes: 2174 On 23 Jul 2024 12:23:01 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >Charles Packer wrote: >> >>Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing? >>My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident. > >I was on the train to nasfic and the cafe car was not able to take = credit >cards. Once I got to Buffalo, credit card terminals at most shops were = not >functioning (although the Starbucks in the hotel had brought in a Square >terminal and was using that in place of their integrated POS system). >ATMs of course were fine. > >I found hotels.com was not functioning properly and called a hotel in = NYC=20 >about making a reservation change and they couldn't do it from their >terminal either. But they were able to do it the next day when I called >again. > >People trust computers too much. A few more of these things and the gummint will step in to /make/ computers trustworthy. Talk about nightmares. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"