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

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at 08:36:56 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 19 July 2024 at 22:49:23 UTC, mw 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.
>
> I heard the cause was corrupted configuration files. What a 
> safe program should do in this case? On error resume next?

What about sanitise the input while ingesting it? What about 
reading Perrow's "Normal Accident"?

The failure is not technical, actually it's worst, it's a company 
cultural failure.

And, btw, for who dislike macOS (I've ready hilarious comments in 
these days around)
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/07/22/could-our-macs-be-crowdstruck/

/P