Microsoft has been very effective running a customer brainwashing campaign, even before Windows existed. As an Apple advocate on government projects I was barraged with lectures about how a command line interface (the pre-Windows system) was far superior to a graphic user interface (GUI), because the GUI made it possible for "computer ignorant" persons to interact and "screw things up" because they didn't understand what they were doing.

Once the Windows GUI became the standard, advocates declared it was obviously superior to the Apple interface, even when they'd never sat in front of an Apple screen. The fact that the Microsoft system still crashed with far more regularity than Apple was taken as a sign that the Microsoft system had more problems because it was "more sophisticated and complex" than the Apple.

Later, after Apple revised its operating system, basing it on Unix for increased security, Microsoft fell back on the "well machines with our system are cheaper" argument. I worked for Lockheed, supporting the National Geospatial intelligence Agency (NGA), the entity that controls all of the technical systems that the other agencies use. When NGA decided that continued support for its Unix workstations was too expensive, the director was sold the idea that converting to a Windows system would be cheap. I tried, unsuccessfully, to suggest they consider either Apple machines or Linux operating systems since that wouldn't require a complete rewrite of all their software, and would be more secure than a Windows system. Of course the end result was long program delays, an extremely expensive software conversion, and security patches on a biweekly basis.

Will this latest fiasco make some people think about going to alternatives? I seriously doubt it, anymore than I might imagine green new deal fanatics to finally recognize reality.

HOW ABOUT THAT INSIDER TRADING THAT WENT ON JUST BEFORE THIS INCIDENT?
LITTLE TREASON HERE. NB

Nevermind Q is LARP (live action role play) by a nerd in mommy’s basement.

This cyber outage is from code inserted into Microsoft from Crowdstrike.
Is this to cause the election to be cxld. Microsoft is used by Dominion and others.


Apr 30, 2020 5:04:19 PM EDT
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 1656e4 No. 8976611
Was the DNC was hacked by Russia?
CIA [BRENNAN] FORCE?
Seth Rich internal DL hand-to-hand pass USA?
CROWDSTRIKE code insert?
If FBI [CHAIN OF COMMAND] was corrupt what other investigations were corrupted?
WHO DID THEY PROVIDE COVER FOR?
HOW FAR BACK DID IT GO?
Q

DNC server(s).
CROWDSTRIKE
Did Russia 'break-in' to DNC server(s)?
Why did FBI accept 'indirect' evidence re: DNC server(s) 'hack''break-in' by CROWDSTRIKE [Ukraine]?
Why didn't FBI 'directly' investigate DNC server(s) [in-hand]?
Download speed internal data DL vs remote? [1]
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...
[1]
How does one provide content to WL?
>comp-to-comp
>person-to-person [1]
Personal comms [secured] prior to release? [1]
The (Source(s)):
>Feeder [1]
>Recipient [1]
Interning for the DNC can be deadly.
Does CROWDSTRIKE possess 'gov_capablity' to trace 'break-in' route(s)?
Does CROWDSTRIKE possess 'gov_capability' re: foreign intercepts?
Possible to layer/insert code [CROWDSTRIKE] to designate intruder [intended target]?
NSA data_bridge DNC-CROWDSTRIKE [bulk data collection]
Matters of National Security [Highest Levels].
FISA is only the beginning.
The hole is DEEP.
Q

Trump was impeached on the perfect phone call with Zelensky. Remember him saying “ They , say you have the server. Crowdstrike, Crowdstrike you have the server .”

Speculation, maybe. But with the current state of things, I'd buy it as possible.

What if it was a successful attempt to destroy evidence of involvement in the assassination attempt
on Trump by forcing thousands of computers to restore to a backup from the previous week?
Purely speculation.
But it would be a better way than destroying a single site where the evidence was stored,
e.g., WTC Building Seven.

server has some form of anti-virus from one company

workstations from another

best (or worse0 of both worlds

I didn't know that.

Made me think of the old classic "Neuromancer".

pretty much....

best i've seen is server side apps and client apps that are different

The reason you don't see people using multiple cybersecurity solutions is that each of them has code written that do not permit their competitors' products to function as they should.

Absolutely agree with you. If you're investing, you don't spend all your money buying stock in one company; you buy stock in different companies, knowing that even if one doesn't do well, you don't lose everything if that's all you have.

I don't see why cyber security should be any different. If I was running a Fortune 500 company, I'd make damn sure that no one single event like this could shut us down. And I would definitely have a DR box that relied on some product other than the one that took my main box down.

You're absolutely right. It just doesn't make sense.

What I don't get is why companies don't use products from multiple cybersecurity companies so that a cyberattack against one company does not leave one vulnerable!

I retired after four decades of writing and maintaining application computer code. I think everyone who has done that for a career has thought "I'll just make this one small change, make one quick test, and implement it" and then have it blow up in their faces. I know I have. So I can see, at least in theory, how this could have happened. But being a card-carrying conspiracy theorist, my gut tells me that there is much more to this than just a bad line of code. This is one of those times I hope I'm wrong about it being more than an honest mistake, because the other options scares the crap out of me.

i can tell you the place i work for used to test software updates before they were released to all computers in the company, i know i used to be part of that process

this process was ended several years ago
and the company was hit hard by this

it is not easy to fix computers that cannot boot by an automatic process
the computers are not running long enough to get updates, not being able to finish the entire boot process

that companies take updates from ANYONE without verifying they are functional is simply insane