Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story

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 - Facebook VPN exploitation - The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio

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Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story is an episode from Technology Pill by Privacy International.

This episode is 00:34:26 long.

This episode was published on Mar 14, 2025.

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