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

[Max Samukha]

On Saturday, 20 July 2024 at 07:13:21 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole 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.

It'd also be nice to have a comprehensive account of the harm 
done by the soultions to the null deref problem. It must have 
caused quite a few suicides among programmers.