A technical breakdown of the root cause of the world's biggest IT fuck up is out. If it's correct, we believe no one should consider this an accident.
Here's a short, non technical explanation.
Windows contains fundamental programmes called drivers that are required for the operating system to work. They are pretty low level software that load in the boot sequence and whenever needed. Users don't directly interact with them and they don't appear in Task Manager's easy view. The user is kept away from them. Drivers have powerful system privileges and access. If essential drivers don't load, work or are corrupt, Windows can completely crash. That can look like the blue screen of death BSOD.
CrowdStrike make a security software product that is a Windows driver that loads during boot up. The update mechanism for that software is within Windows. Users don't get a direct say. That released an update to that globe that contained a direct, guaranteed fatal coding error.
The coding error in C++ language is fatal because it makes the program try to access a non existent part of the machine's memory. No machine anywhere will have this memory address. When this access attempt happens, a fatal error results that causes the program to crash. When that program crashes, Windows crashes.
CrowdStrike's program was intrinsic to Windows boot up, so once a crash happened the machine could never be booted up again until CrowdStrike's program was literally deleted from the machine's boot sequence. This requires manual access to the machine in many, many cases. Remote fixing isn't possible, so “the fix” is very high labour and access. That's an insanely expensive fix. Literally dudes going to each machine and manually song the fix over and over.
The above is absolutely fucking insane.
The coding error guaranteed CrowdStrike's product could never work. If it never worked but was released, it was never tested. This error could not have existed in previous versions of the programme otherwise the same crash would have occurred. CrowdStrike's product was insanely powerful in two ways. First, it's on maybe hundreds of millions of machines and they are all updated without choice by anyone anywhere. No chance to control it. Everyone was enslaved by that program. Second, there was zero QA/QC and testing. Whatever they had done before this release was totally abandoned. That takes deliberate, conscious thought to do this.
This program is a bit like the ring of Sauron, that's how powerful it was because of its nature, circumstance and scale of deployment. Plus, it's on the machine's critical path and cannot be bypassed or its error caught and handled. You simply do not deal with something so powerful in such a way as to have no process for testing and release.
It hasn't happened before. What changed, how and why?
Perhaps planting the seed that a simple human-input mistake in coding is enough to disable/destabilize global commercial systems.
[Establish precedent].
....setting the scene for running BIG Cyber Polygon in a few months, except this time point to *nefarious actors* deliberately injecting simple human-input in coding, enough to disable/destabilize global commercial systems.
And right on cue - "securing the internet"/Zero Trust initiatives/Restricted access unless through Digital ID - now become imperative.
General unfettered access to the internet has become problematic for them. The global peasants have re-discovered their love of reading, and the digital Library of Alexandria is giving up all sorts of secrets.
Bang on Trump's intended assassination more like. Puts Bill Gates in with Black Rock - something Trump should bear in mind when he goes hunting for his enemies, using his new Presidential power to do that - again.
Also Interesting that in Thinking Slow’s article that you've quoted above, he links to Zach Vorhies Twitter post detailing the tech breakdown of what went wrong, where ZV says:
“Memory in your computer is laid out as one giant array of numbers. We represent these numbers here as hexadecimal, which is base 16 (hexadecimal) because it's easier to work with... for reasons.
The problem area? The computer tried to read memory address 0x9c (aka 156)”.
Well, all my computers are Micrsoft with Windows 10 - I don't like 11, won't use it again, won't go near it again with a bargepole. I use Deep Freeze to lock my registry, then to reboot I pull the power plug and with the frozen directory, my computer resets to how I set it up and I'm up and running again in 3 minutes tops, all systems go!!
This is our future as we have given our power and sovereign state of being to this technology. It was sold as a perfect and utopian lifestyle for the people. Well the control and confusion is always in our future. It is regular business. The silicon valley types they do not care. They only think about themselves obviously. I didn't think nothing of it. Technology is human driven and humans are not perfect so things will happen.
Might have posed a problem if you were flying in a plane with a Microsoft computer in it, re Faulty CrowdStrike - did not affect me, all of my computers are Microsoft Windows and protected by Deep Freeze - business as usual.
A.I isn't perfect. This form of A.I is just human driven data which is not perfect. We have a ways to go. The DIGERATI has just fooled everyone. No where near perfect.
Call me cynical. My first thought: "test run".
Interesting logic - I like your thinking. So what comes next then?
A technical breakdown of the root cause of the world's biggest IT fuck up is out. If it's correct, we believe no one should consider this an accident.
Here's a short, non technical explanation.
Windows contains fundamental programmes called drivers that are required for the operating system to work. They are pretty low level software that load in the boot sequence and whenever needed. Users don't directly interact with them and they don't appear in Task Manager's easy view. The user is kept away from them. Drivers have powerful system privileges and access. If essential drivers don't load, work or are corrupt, Windows can completely crash. That can look like the blue screen of death BSOD.
CrowdStrike make a security software product that is a Windows driver that loads during boot up. The update mechanism for that software is within Windows. Users don't get a direct say. That released an update to that globe that contained a direct, guaranteed fatal coding error.
The coding error in C++ language is fatal because it makes the program try to access a non existent part of the machine's memory. No machine anywhere will have this memory address. When this access attempt happens, a fatal error results that causes the program to crash. When that program crashes, Windows crashes.
CrowdStrike's program was intrinsic to Windows boot up, so once a crash happened the machine could never be booted up again until CrowdStrike's program was literally deleted from the machine's boot sequence. This requires manual access to the machine in many, many cases. Remote fixing isn't possible, so “the fix” is very high labour and access. That's an insanely expensive fix. Literally dudes going to each machine and manually song the fix over and over.
The above is absolutely fucking insane.
The coding error guaranteed CrowdStrike's product could never work. If it never worked but was released, it was never tested. This error could not have existed in previous versions of the programme otherwise the same crash would have occurred. CrowdStrike's product was insanely powerful in two ways. First, it's on maybe hundreds of millions of machines and they are all updated without choice by anyone anywhere. No chance to control it. Everyone was enslaved by that program. Second, there was zero QA/QC and testing. Whatever they had done before this release was totally abandoned. That takes deliberate, conscious thought to do this.
This program is a bit like the ring of Sauron, that's how powerful it was because of its nature, circumstance and scale of deployment. Plus, it's on the machine's critical path and cannot be bypassed or its error caught and handled. You simply do not deal with something so powerful in such a way as to have no process for testing and release.
It hasn't happened before. What changed, how and why?
Perhaps planting the seed that a simple human-input mistake in coding is enough to disable/destabilize global commercial systems.
[Establish precedent].
....setting the scene for running BIG Cyber Polygon in a few months, except this time point to *nefarious actors* deliberately injecting simple human-input in coding, enough to disable/destabilize global commercial systems.
And right on cue - "securing the internet"/Zero Trust initiatives/Restricted access unless through Digital ID - now become imperative.
General unfettered access to the internet has become problematic for them. The global peasants have re-discovered their love of reading, and the digital Library of Alexandria is giving up all sorts of secrets.
Bang on Trump's intended assassination more like. Puts Bill Gates in with Black Rock - something Trump should bear in mind when he goes hunting for his enemies, using his new Presidential power to do that - again.
Also Interesting that in Thinking Slow’s article that you've quoted above, he links to Zach Vorhies Twitter post detailing the tech breakdown of what went wrong, where ZV says:
“Memory in your computer is laid out as one giant array of numbers. We represent these numbers here as hexadecimal, which is base 16 (hexadecimal) because it's easier to work with... for reasons.
The problem area? The computer tried to read memory address 0x9c (aka 156)”.
In Hebrew Gematria 156 = ‘False Flag’
Just sayin’…..
Well, all my computers are Micrsoft with Windows 10 - I don't like 11, won't use it again, won't go near it again with a bargepole. I use Deep Freeze to lock my registry, then to reboot I pull the power plug and with the frozen directory, my computer resets to how I set it up and I'm up and running again in 3 minutes tops, all systems go!!
This is our future as we have given our power and sovereign state of being to this technology. It was sold as a perfect and utopian lifestyle for the people. Well the control and confusion is always in our future. It is regular business. The silicon valley types they do not care. They only think about themselves obviously. I didn't think nothing of it. Technology is human driven and humans are not perfect so things will happen.
Might have posed a problem if you were flying in a plane with a Microsoft computer in it, re Faulty CrowdStrike - did not affect me, all of my computers are Microsoft Windows and protected by Deep Freeze - business as usual.
That is the chance we always take but we do not think about. No perfection is in our life but we think it is to go about our day.
I thought most things were driven by AI now, even mathematical arguments are AI creations?
A.I isn't perfect. This form of A.I is just human driven data which is not perfect. We have a ways to go. The DIGERATI has just fooled everyone. No where near perfect.