How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker
Better Offline27 Syys 2024

How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker

Just over a month after the CrowdStrike debacle, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker to "stokel-walk" through the brittle patchwork of open source, non-profit and for-profit entities that hold up the internet - and how calamitous it would be if any of them buckled.

Article: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/crowdstrike-trigger-global-meltdown-cyber-fail-amazon-b2586523.html

Follow Chris: https://x.com/stokel

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