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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: 23 Jul 2024 12:23:01 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
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>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 
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.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."