This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash.
Links
- Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet
- Find more about the 911 outages across several US states
- CrowdStrike's own review of the problem
- Our podcast on the XZ exploit
- The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio
