The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization

Photo caption: Digital boards in New Delhi, India, display error messages due to the global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike on 19 July 2024. Photo credit: Anadolu / Getty Images. Article by Edward Ongweso Jr. The Guardian – July 20, 2024.

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure

A global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. Over all the chaos hung a question: how did a flawed update to Microsoft Windows software bring large swaths of society to a screeching halt? […]

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