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Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:26:49 +0200
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, David W. Hodgins wrote:

> 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

That's a ridiculous interpretation of my statement and you know it. Please 
raise the bar.