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  0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 08:49:30 JST 0

  • Kevin Beaumont
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  Counterpoint. Everything down now isn't critical.
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  þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 08:49:51 JST þernia

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  @0 @GossiTheDog that one granny on her windows11 pacemaker rn:
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  Steve Wart (swart@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 09:06:01 JST Steve Wart

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog do they live in 2004?

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  Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: (tob@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 09:11:47 JST Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog No critical infrastructure should run 3rd party services that perform unsupervised automatic remote updates. The OS is irrelevant.

  Also, not every server needs to have ends point protection. (For example, the kiosk displaying arrivals and departures.)

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  crazyeddie (crazyeddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 09:13:22 JST crazyeddie

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog If it wasn't for the fact that people are posting about it left and right, I'd have no idea this was even happening. None of the websites I go to are even down. I think "critical" might mean different things to different people.

  And hey, if you got "critical" infrastructure running on Windows, maybe the lesson today is yours :p

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  argv minus one (argv_minus_one@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 15:13:50 JST argv minus one

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog

  I guess some people think “infrastructure” means only servers.

  Which, yeah, aren't running Windows and weren't affected by today's debacle (although they've had their moments).

  But servers aren't very useful by themselves. The whole point of servers is that you interact with them using some other device…which runs Windows, and is currently on fire.

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  Guelfo Alexander Ghibellini (guelfoalexander@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 16:29:46 JST Guelfo Alexander Ghibellini

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog and also Linux could have same issue someday. or even worse. never speak too early 😅

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  WowSuchCyber (wowsuchcyber@toot.zof.sh)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 18:37:13 JST WowSuchCyber

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog in my company the critical critical runs AIX but the entire workplace was down so no way to operated the critical part. All the automated functions continued unaffected but anything needed a human was down.

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  David Phd (cmsdengl@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 18:59:30 JST David Phd

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog "Every so often" being Never ??

  Retired SunOS guy who thought Windows 2000 server was a bad idea. There's your education right there !!

  Ditto Windows CE which morphed into a bad embedded OS. Your second lesson of the day.