Comments by "Perhaps" (@NoEgg4u) on "Yahoo Finance"
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Yahoo Finance using a "Bash Trump" headline, as though Yahoo Finance does not understand President Trump's efforts to get the House Of Representatives to provide relief, without them adding 100% unrelated, power grabbing BS into the package.
This goes on all of the time.
They give a package a catchy name, and then they load it up with encyclopedias worth of special interest, money under the table, crap.
So President Trump walked away from that negotiation. There was no way that he would sign such a reckless bill into law. And then President Trump announced what he wants to have passed into law.
This is not rocket science. And Yahoo Finance intentionally labels their video to make President Trump look bad. Why?
Just like people hear "Stimulus Package", and assume it is all good (without reading what is in the package, Yahoo Finance creates a video that does the same thing. They count on people seeing their title, getting annoyed with President Trump, without digging any deeper to really find out what is happening.
And the stock market is not trying to make sense of President Trump's tweets. They understand exactly what is happening.
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1) This is most likely an attack. My money (so to speak) is on a disgruntled CrowdStrike employee.
It is hard to force Windows 10 or Windows 11 to crash, due to a poorly written application.
Someone at CrowdStrike found a weakness within Windows, and they exploited it. Such weaknesses are not easy to find.
2) Every government agency, and every business that is having major issues, is due to their own incompetence.
They should all be backing up their computers, daily.
They should know that they just got an update today, and now all of their computers that got that update are not working.
The quick fix is to boot from emergency boot media, and restore the operating system from the last backup, which should have been done only hours before the CrowdStrike update.
That would get everyone up an running right away.
3) Some government agencies and businesses will have put their databases on their OS drive. So if they restore from a backup, their databases will be missing recent additions, deletions, or changes.
They would have to back up their database files, before doing a restore from yesterday's backup. Then, after they restore their OS from yesterday's backup, they would have to copy their database (that they just backed up) to their C: drive where they just did the recovery.
This would all be avoided if they did not store their database files on the C: drive.
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Did CrowdStrike screw up?
Yes.
But the bulk of the blame, for the downtime with so many critical services, is the incompetence and attitudes of indifference with the personnel that run those businesses.
They should never allow themselves to be shut down by a 3rd party.
My computer has no issues. And if it should receive an update that cripples it, I will restore it to prior from receiving the crippling update. That is my responsibility for my own equipment.
All of those giant businesses should be doing the same. It is outrageous that they are scrambling, because they do not have backups.
People that have stock in those companies, and are losing their shirt, should sue those companies for gross negligence.
Sue the airlines, too, for financial losses due to missing flights.
Sue the government agencies, for lives that are lost.
It is 100% unacceptable for those businesses to not be able to quickly recover from this.
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