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Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story

3/14/2025 • 34 min

This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash. Links - Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet - Find more about the 911 outages across several US states - CrowdStr… Play episode

Counting every vote: Technology and voter data in Latin American elections
Vertical Mergers: Competition, Connectivity, and Starlink
The End of Privacy in Public: Facial Recognition and the UK Parliament
Data and Disability: Rights in a Digitised world
Enter the matrix: How to run an encrypted communications platform
The XZ exploit: The day the internet got lucky
The Cryptowars: A short history of encryption politics
A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court
What is Encryption? Codes, Keys, and Hashes
GPS tracking of migrants in the UK: Performative cruelty and dodgy tech
Good News: Things you might have missed in 2023
Generative AI: Our hot takes on deep fakes
No Competition: Big Tech, Big Problems
Tech Assisted Abuse: How smart devices can facilitate abuse
10 years since Snowden: Legacy, Law, and Litigation
GPS tracking migrants in the UK: Who profits?
Election Observation: Data, Elections and a trip to Kenya
Protecting the protectors: a case from Colombia
MI5 Lied...for years: a win for privacy
Producing Real Change: Our 2022
How to Investigate Digital Forensics: Speaking to the UK's Former Forensic…
Corporate Power with Cory Doctorow
EdTech needs Schooling
Got PimEyes on you
Maternal Health and Family Planning in the Middle East: Gender and Power
Talking to People about Privacy
The EU, the Sahel and the Externalisation of Surveillance
Surveillance: Made in Italy and sold around the world
Violence at the EU’s borders: Tech and surveillance in Europe’s Human Righ…
Upcoming: Border Surveillance
Corporate Spies Gone Wild
Not Fine: A Clearview Update
NSO Group: Civil society's battle against government hacking
Update: Marketing, Maternity, and the data supply chain
2021: Looking back
2022: Looking forward
Christmas Present Privacy
Tech Research: includes a free gift
Victory! A Clearview update: some (provisionally) good news from the UK
Unhealthy diet of targeted ads
Covid and Tech: A view from Colombia
Humanitarian data after Afghanistan
Rebroadcast: Your mental health for sale?
Cargo planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Summer Reading
Evading facial recognition
Covid and tech: a view from India
Covid: Where have we been? Where are we now?
Biometrics domination under the pretext of combating terrorism

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