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 Huge Microsoft Outage leads to Global Closed Businesses

Banks, Airlines, Businesses Worldwide Shut Down.

London Stock Exchange’s news service was down.
In the US, many 911 and non-emergency call centers weren’t working properly.
Many television channels around the world have been hit by the outage, with Sky News in the UK broadcasting from a phone after its studio equipment failed.
The Paris Olympics organizing committee also said it had been hit by the outage, but that it had contingency plans in place. 
In Europe, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport—one of the continent’s biggest connecting hubs—was shut to all arrivals due to the issues, according to Eurocontrol, Europe’s air-traffic-control agency. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it had suspended most of its operations.

This story not only shows the horrible dangers of Microsoft’s operating system, but also proprietary software that constantly and unnecessarily monitors systems that otherwise could be offline.  CrowdStrike is a corrupt pro-Democrat firm that supposedly does cybersecurity.  And it’s their software going down has caused Microsoft operating systems globally to have the blue screen of death.  Thousands of airlines globally have delayed flights, and millions of people are being inconvenienced.  

CrowdStrike’s bloated proprietary software is morally corrupt and forced upon workers.  The software monitors all activity on a computer, even when offline actions are performed such as copying a file.  Then this data is all sent back to CrowdStrike to be monitored for their supposed security purposes.

But what is never discussed is that CrowdStrike now has complete surveillance over all documents in organizations that could have otherwise been kept offline, and is now a centralized point of failure for incidents exactly like this.  Further, it’s a massive invasion of privacy for employees, and is often pushed on them for all their devices.

CrowdStrike’s invasive software is difficult to remove, and hijacks the system at the OS-level.  It’s not something employees can just toggle on and off.  While as if employees were just using Linux and end-to-end encrypted communication systems, this would not only save companies money, but has a more reliable track record for reducing security inncidents.

CrowdStrike is famous for lying about Wikileaks.  Even though they had no special knowledge, these supposed experts mouthed off malicious lies that Wikileaks was a hack, and not leak.  Their goal was to create trust in Hillary Clinton, which they failed to do because they provided zero proof.

Between Microsoft and CrowdStrike, they have invaded all corporate computers with surveillance of all OFFLINE activity, that has now brought corporations globally to a screeching halt.  Now is a great time to switch over to Linux, using our rich educational resources.