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