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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:48:05 -0700
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:29:19 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-07-24 03:27:34 +0000, Mad Hamish said:
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:56:32 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
>> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> xkcd: CrowdStrike
>>>> https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
>>>>=20
>>>> Make the best of bad times.
>>>>=20
>>>> Explained at:
>>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
>>>>=20
>>>> Lynn
>>>=20
>>> Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
>>=20
>> A client provided  computer went on a reboot loop and meant I couldn't
>> do a scheduled software release
>> When I went to the supermarket 1/2 the checkouts were out of service
>> (I presume crowdstrike)
><snip>
>
>Sounds like just a normal day here in New Zealand ... the idiots=20
>running the supermarkets only ever seem to have half the checkouts=20
>(usually less!) working. Same with bank branches with their tellers. =20
>:-(

=46or a while, the card reader in one particular checkout of the local
Bartells always refused to read my card's chip. The others worked.

They replaced their old machines with new ones. The same thing
happened.

The problem here, of course, is that there is no way to demonstrate it
to anyone. To do that I would have to purchase a lot of items
individually, some at one checkout, some at another, while some
employee paid attention. Had that /been/ possible, I would have
suggested switching cables. I mean, if the problem survives putting in
a new machine, doesn't that make the cable the Obvious Suspect?

The clerks were hopeless. They didn't read the whole screen and so
missed the fact that it wanted me to slide the card. One managed to go
so fast that the device actually claimed the card had been cancelled.
It hadn't: swiping worked. One insisted I "tap" even that that card
didn't have the capability; she was /convinced/ that all cards could
do this. Things have quieted down now that the card was updated by one
that does "tap".
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"