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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 02:59:53 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   CrowdStrike’s billion-dollar outage is a wake-up call. We need antitrust action now to prevent future tech collapses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture

   • David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 03:15:11 JST David W. Jones

     in reply to

     @eff
     If it's too big to fail, it's too big. Break it up!

     Applies to all industries, including the finance "industry".

   • Ehay2k for Harris Walz (ehay2k@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:48:52 JST Ehay2k for Harris Walz

     in reply to

     @eff

     Not taking sides here, but if a company has the BEST cybersecurity on the planet available, should they not have a "monopoly" position?

     That's a challenge here, innovation on excellent cybersecurity can't be subject to market requirements that other people be allowed to compete.

     Your product either works or it doesn't. In CrowdStrike's case, it worked a little bit too well but also because not enough people tested before they deployed it.

   • Chris from Earth (chrisfromearth@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:56:18 JST Chris from Earth

     in reply to

     @eff
     I've said since day one that 1) Turning your email address into your username is stupid and 2) Turning hundreds of thousands of unique exchange server targets into ONE is also very very stupid.