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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:47:41 -0400
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:21:04 -0400, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
<snip>
>> Pardon my ignorance, but what has crowdstrike got to do with Windows?

> They sent out a patch which crashed windows. If you do not have windows,
> you would not be affected by it.

The people sitting in airports running linux on their laptops or android
on their phones might disagree with that statement.

It affects all systems running windows and crowdstrike, which includes many
microsoft 365 cloud servers. The systems impacted includes many airlines,
government  services, financial institutions, etc.

So you don't even have to own your own computer to be affected by it.

Regards, Dave Hodgins