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

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 20/07/2024 6:53 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Friday, 19 July 2024 at 23:33:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
>> It's 2024, and a NULL pointer brought down half the world's servers.
> 
> ...and the world didn't end.

Your dismissal is far too early.

It affected hospitals, emergency dispatchers (911), not just financial 
systems.

Until a postmortem is done, there is no way to know that nobody was harmed.