Comments by "Perhaps" (@NoEgg4u) on "Yahoo Finance" channel.

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  6. 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. ----- 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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