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Instead of in the weekend, John Vanderaart’s weekly column can now be read on Fridays on pcactive.nl. This time John is talking about Crowdstrike and his previous column was about Teams hacked, which you may not have read yet.
Do you have that with that Blue Screen Of Death’s followed a bit after that Crowdstrike error? Admittedly, at (and not only) Schiphol things were pretty much in the soup and quite a few travelers were faced with serious holiday misfortune. If you look at the real story, you will find out that a Crowdstrike test procedure had failed. As a result, non-functioning software was still – automatically – approved. And that is exactly my problem with automation: “It goes automatically.” And so after a while you no longer look at it: “Because it goes automatically.” Well, what if it does NOT go automatically one time? Then suddenly the house is too small. And nowhere to be found anyone who still knows how to do it manually. After all, that someone has been automatically automated away. Just wait a bit and then EVERYTHING will be automatic and then there will be no old-fashioned professional anywhere to be found. Just one more small step and then the automatically automated machines will no longer need us at all…
Come on, in the future. To a little professional…