CrowdStrike used Windows. Apple systems were not affected.

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1. PBS Newshour interviewed Bruce Schneier from Harvard University about the recent tech failures.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-faulty-software-update-sparked-tech-disruptions-worldwide

Basically it's a matter of economics. All the companies have incentives to run lean (he didn't say it but I think meant saving money and answering to stockholders and boards).

PBS asked great questions: what would it take to ensure things like this and other recent outages don't keep happening. Comes down to redundancy which costs money. He didn't think the tech industry would fix it.

No regulatory agency would do much, he thought. Only legislation could make companies spend the money to be resilient. But what constituency would push for that?

He was pretty sure nobody would be held to account and conditions for these things to keep happening wouldn't improve. But he did point to a path forward – if anyone pushed for it.