https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/6dbdd637-0b40-4a00-a636-3dc602203843 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: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/falcon-sensor-issue-use-to-target-crowdstrike-customers/, ⁠Find more about the 911 outages⁠ across several US states: https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-it-outage-911-lines-down-parts-of-us-havoc-2024-7 -⁠ CrowdStrike's own review of the problem⁠: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/falcon-sensor-issue-use-to-target-crowdstrike-customers/, Our podcast on the ⁠XZ exploit⁠: https://media.privacyinternational.org/w/bPG9prVDnsKeN1WjotKaVH, Facebook VPN exploitation: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/, The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:15:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.privacyinternational.org https://media.privacyinternational.org/lazy-static/avatars/5c7454e0-676b-43a0-8933-4867d0c1f2e6.png https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/6dbdd637-0b40-4a00-a636-3dc602203843 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.privacyinternational.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.