[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 10:49:23PM +0000, mw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1814376668095754753?t=fAIwQeQpf0HJ9uh-gxqE9Q&s=19
> 
> Crowdstrike Analysis:
> 
> It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.
> 
> Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack
> trace dump for you.
[...]

It's 2024, and a NULL pointer brought down half the world's servers.

Just gives you *so* much confidence in technology. :-D

//

In other news, this is yet another nail in the coffin of memory-unsafe
languages. We're slowly, but surely inching towards the day when the
likes of C and C++ will finally be relegated to the dustbin of
history...


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