Congress grills #CrowdStrike over $5 billion outage, free with marketing stuff. wapo.st/47CBqwq

#Oops. The #Crowdstrike crash was caused by having a function with 21 input parameters but the integration tests only checked 20. This worked for a while until the fatal update used the 21st parameter for the first time and all went wrong.

"Therefore, the attempt to access the 21st value produced an out-of-bounds memory read beyond the end of the input data array and resulted in a system crash." Page 2 of

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that the expected Y2K effect was imaginary.

No! No! NO!

We* did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.

(* As in everyone responsable for operating computer systems around the world!)

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

It's like a slow motion train wreck. As the sun rises and business days start all over the world, the #Crowdstrike issue hits more and more countries and markets. South Africa, UK, Europe. This will truly be a Black Friday for many. (added the manual workaround in case you didn't already see it)