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An ETF that tracks Democrat congress member stock trades.
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First, Congress is insider trading and making millions, Pelosi?
Second, Nvidia is being used in AI like chatGPT. [Link]
It's probably wishful thinking but wouldn't it be nice if there actually was a hack from outside to cause all of this, meant as a message to Crowdstrike, Nvidia, Microsoft, and the rest of the bunch?
Was the "null pointer" only pushed to Windows 10 with Falcon? Or doesn't it affect Windows 11 with Falcon?
The file was C-00000291--*26.sys. It affected every machine using the Crowdstrike Falcon sensor which received the update. If a machine was powered off - like my work laptop - the update was pushed and would have been copied to my machine on boot causing the blue screen, except my org got the message and was able to recall that update before I logged in for the morning on Friday. I personally spent 18 hours fixing computers and touched about 60 of them (some of them were real buggers to fix). My team fixed around 1200 servers total. I have no idea how many user endpoints (work laptops) were affected, because thank goodness, I don't touch those.
Something to keep in mind is that this is likely to destroy Crowdstrike. Even if every company decided to keep using Crowdstrike, everyone who lost money is going to sue them, and even Google doesn't have the money to pay a class-action of this magnitude.
While it's difficult to imagine this was a mistake, it's still a possibility.
Now, if Pelosi and half of congress dumped Crowdstrike stock before this last week, I'd sing a different tune. But while I fixed server after server this weekend and watched the stock price, it dropped 12% before opening on Friday (once everyone knew it was going on) and had bounced back quite a bit by closing Friday. It's currently down 26% from Wednesday evening.
These companies have strict policies and processes, but you'd be surprised just how often folks cut corners.
We had a discussion on our team earlier this year where our top-level manager for all things Windows related said we needed to get more changes done per week on the one hand while reducing incidents on the other, then telling us most of our incidents were caused by changes. We've face staff cutbacks of about 75% over the last 3 years. You can infer (accurately) a lot about corporate jobs from that.
This is how it works at Fortune companies. Management looks at metrics and then makes all their decisions based on those metrics, much like the political parties make decisions based on polls. And the problem with that is poll and metrics alike often miss key information.
It will be interesting to see what happens to CrowdStrike. As you note it would be expected to see corporations using CrowdStrike to move off them or sue them. If it doesn't happen, what does it mean?
It is interesting that Dominion election servers were down in Maricopa county, Arizona. One link. [Link]
The second link makes hacking appear to be really easy if you have the keys and apparently Killary had them.
It's why I feel like being in IT, specifically working with Windows, is the equivalent of being a virtual janitor. We clean up a mess and tell you how to prevent it in the future, but somehow keep cleaning up the same mess over and over.
What's astounding about this is how simple the mistake was.
What's more astounding is that it wasn't caught in testing. It makes all of my peers wonder if someone didn't test it. For every change in our company, we're required to do pre-implementation testing (PITe). If we actually did PITe for every change we made, we'd need twice as many employees. They require this testing for even the simplest and most banal of changes (like updating a host file).
So what happens is often the PITe verification is just made-up. This gets caught all the time in the Change Accountability meetings when the PITe date is later than the date of the change being scheduled, but everyone overlooks it because most of the time it's not even possible to test. There are a lot of flaws in our change processes, but the one thing they allow is for one person to be blamed for everything if something goes wrong, so the company can point and say "this person didn't follow our 'airtight' processes and no longer works for us." This keeps the auditors happy.
And more than 50% of the time, it's our "global" team (meaning India) that does this.
It’s actually the Ghost in the Machine.
Just like Get Smart’s plot was Chaos & Control. Or Bond’s villain was SPECTRE.
Smupid/Smupidity by design.
It’s designed that way as the scapeGOAT.
They have control & keys to the back doors & backbone of that system.
As an integral part AI system & the scripted plot the “Skynet” Frankenstein creation has to either fail or succeed. The good has to triumph evil in this carnation evil-oution out of the Matrix demiurge or people perish for their lack
of knowledge. Lots of plates spinning in the air. LOTS in multiple directions. Out of the Chaos (Tohubuho - Hebrew) comes order. Out of the Ashes rises the Phoenix. Goetic Magi-ck - Chaos Magi-ck.
In the end humanity will get some Cheese Dick shillebrity who says the over used cliche’ that‘s always the same; the enemy of man was man himself Bravo Sierra.
Those of us awake know differently. 🤡
However, even if it isn't, Crowdstrike was just identified as a critical single point of failure, like when air traffic controllers learned the windowless AT&T building in NYC was a single point of failure in the early 90s. No one knew until it happened.
From an IT perspective though, a flaw of this magnitude is unprecedented.
That is what I’m eluding to as well. The Ghost is in the Machine.
The scapegoat is always the known patsy & as you articulated the attributed critical single point of failure.
That is how the architects get away with it. They already designed the machine with its exploitative vulnerability points. You know that as a IT SME.
They know who has the keys to the backbone of the system & have control over that. That’s the Machiavellian Faustian bargain of Mephistopheles.
It takes another layer of thinking to get to this so called 5D Chess but it’s there & that’s where they operate from.
If you look at the design of a microprocessor it’s hidden in plain view. The chip’s design shape tells you & not even hidden. You have to be adept enough of course to recognize this semiotics symbol.
Those that can see, those that cannot & those that need to be shown. Can’t see it for them. Only point them where to look to see it for themselves.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King.
Just “Zayin”…
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Cheers!
Things don’t just happen. They are made to happen.
There is synchronicity that’s organic & also manufactured/synthesized.
That’s one of the keys to figuring out & understanding how the Matrix/Demiurge works.
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Now, for my own edification I share a definition: Thanks VooDoo6 - holy moly - who this demiurge think it be?
The ghost is in the machine. This particular ghost is dark energy of Satan/Lucifer/Devil/Ahriman/Saturn Cube etc. Same people who created the machine run & control the ghosts involved.
The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people.
[Link] Engineered cyber attack.
More Cowbell less Clowns. 😂💩💩
and ain't it seeming likely - the DNC is toast!
Place your bets!
Suggest to me - tis time for better operating systems that are completely independent of the corporate entity referred to as Microsoft.
Cause I been hearing about troubles others been having, and just today try to play a game on "Steam" called "Balatro" - (this is one fine game well composed), but now I get a message my video driver doesn't support Open GL 2.1 or Open GL ES 2. I'll tell you RIGHT now, I been through this shit for many years, and is MS bullshit....that company deserves to go down for all the harm it has caused evident.
I suspect many others are experiencing similar difficulties and does it not beckon better ideas - so who needs MS - fuck em if they can't provide proper code and are compromised criminals for whom ropes await - strings of death upon those causing so much harm known and evident.
He notes that Crowdstrike has its servers in the Ukraine... Maricopa county's Election servers went down due to the Crowdstrike "upgrade". But Maricopa said election servers are not connected to the internet, and there is no input from foreign sources.
Gene also notes that one of the evil things done in the Ukraine is body part harvesting business from soldiers and others.
Effected over 8 billion individual devices...