Crowdstrike’s failure is part of a series this year. Companies that “offer” globalized services take down their customers when they fail in a very slight way. Similar outfits “serving” real estate and car dealers failed earlier this year.
None of these companies are necessary. Before such companies developed, some industries had their own private networks; most didn’t need any network. Car dealers were linked to GM or Chrysler or Hudson. The central company gathered stats at intervals and provided training materials and films and loans. Car parts and junkyards had an actual data web in the 70s, operating on dedicated Bell phone lines. These were MUTUAL arrangements, not operated by an outsider loyal only to Share Value.
Most businesses were just independent. They kept their own books and gathered their own stats. Even the smallest business had a bookkeeper, who generally subbed at other jobs when needed. When I worked for a construction company I was bookkeeper and truck driver and occasional construction helper. We didn’t NEED a globalized connector. We did business in 5 states, and I somehow managed to send taxes and report forms to each of the states. Not a lot of work.
Crowdstrike apparently provides cybersecurity, which is AUTOMATICALLY a bad idea. Take care of your own data by keeping it OFF the web, not by trusting a Share Value tech tyrant to take care of it for you. A private system doesn’t NEED hourly updates of its software.
Nobody needs hourly updates of any fucking thing.
The updates, even when not crashing from a null pointer error, WASTE TIME AND EFFORT by forcing the employees to reshape their procedures instead of getting shit done.
One story about the real estate globalizer described it as extortionate. It offers services, then quickly ties the realtor into its grasp so there’s no way out. Classic gangland tactics.
When three huge failures happen in a short time, businesses SHOULD learn a lesson. Start keeping your own info. HIRE PEOPLE to do your own work instead of trusting a fungible global monster to do it cheaply WITHOUT WORKERS.
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