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Jameson Lopp | 4 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +39 
 We have huge swaths of critical infrastructure that runs on Windows and a single buggy update can bring it to a grinding halt.

Anyway, good morning.
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XeqT Monetary Freedom (∞/21M) + (₿+⚡) = 🧡 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sounds reliable 😂
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84dcaaf5 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Great morning!
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pam | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 today is wild. prelude to global chaos - news company, airports, ports and ships, banks and government offices all over the world are impacted.
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48fc7f4c | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 #Linux ftw
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NVK | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Many elevators still run on windows NT (the least shitty version they ever made, was a separate group)
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hodlbod | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My dad was on the NT team. Amazing project at an awful company.
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NVK | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Respect 🫡
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elsat | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Was it an auto-update? 

cc @franzap
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franzap | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Painful to be reminded that people choose internet-connected Windows for critical infrastructure
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FightFree2030 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The irony that the cyber security platform integrated into Windows itself has the effective capability of behaving like an internet kill switch.
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Maria2000 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Morning☕😊
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Bitcoin Apostle | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sounds like a pretty stupid idea…
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cheesypleb | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Hate to defend windows but it was third party software. Could have happened on any OS.
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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Only Windows has this sort of third party ecosystem