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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:23:46 -0700
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On 23 Jul 2024 12:23:01 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

>Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> 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.'"