Crowdstrike Global IT Outage

[budoslavic]

I do wonder whether this was an attempt to hijack the news cycle away from Trump, especially given Crowdstrike's history of being involved in deep state subterfuge (the DNC/Russia hoax in 2016).

Yes, it is clearly a distraction. It is no secret CrowdStrike has a shady history as well as connections with powerful alphabet agencies and figures.

Trusted by governments

Founded by its CEO George Kurtz and former CTO Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011, Crowdstrike released its flagship Falcon platform two years later. Falcon monitors clients’ computers or servers for attacks, relays details of incoming threats to the company via a cloud-based monitoring service, and can then block or trace the attack.

Among the clients listed on Crowdstrike’s website are Amazon, Google, Visa, and Intel. More than 80% of US state governments use Crowdstrike, as do the national governments of Australia, Germany, Israel, and others.

Russiagate cheerleaders, spy agency links: what you need to know about CrowdStrike, the firm behind the global IT outage

A leading name in cybersecurity, Crowdstrike was deeply involved in the ‘Russiagate’ hoax

www.rt.com

Alperovitch's background...

He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank and was named in December 2013 as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers, along with Angela Merkel, John Kerry, Ben Bernanke and Jeff Bezos.

https://softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Two_party_system_as_poliarchy/Intelligence_agencies_influence/fbi_and_cia_contractor_crowdstike.shtml

 

[SeaEagle]

It might be time to take the cash-pill. I think we need to vote with our wallets. Might delay/prevent cbdc nonsense.

 

[JayR]

It might be time to take the cash-pill. I think we need to vote with our wallets. Might delay/prevent cbdc nonsense.

I left my tip at the restaurant tonight in cash. Next time I'll bring enough bills to pay the entire thing without plastic. Starve the beast!

 

[Joost]

The stock fell +20% this month (+10%) Friday.

The company might receive a bunch of lawsuits, be dumped by clients (Tesla did) and even retail investors might do the same.


But, stock market is a casino and there’s a play I’m interested. Depending on how the pre-market starts:
Sell 7/26 $290 PUT.

If the stock stays above $290 (-4% from today’s price), you pocket $660 for each contract.
Price can go down up to $283.40 (-6.2%) and you’ll be even. It’s a good way to buy stocks you’re interested.

So if it goes down more than 6.2%, you’ll have to buy the stock (100 for each contract).

You can buy puts to give you some extra protection in case it falls.

 

[GoodShepherd]

Just to let everyone know that these outages are not that big of a deal, we have been having power outages in South Africa for many many years and we have worked around it and things are still working, yes its a great inconvenience but its really not the end of the world, most businesses and instututions now have generators and solar power and invertors as a back up some they are prepared to a point, when this was still a new thing it was worse becaise there was no internet and you couldnt pay with a debit card at stores or withdraw from ATMs, no traffic lights or street lights etc etc but thats no longer an issue now and it wasnt the end of the world, the worst part was production was lost at companies and a lot of busninesses closed down or left the country, besides that, nothing to panic about

 

[Rax Moscow]

I left my tip at the restaurant tonight in cash. Next time I'll bring enough bills to pay the entire thing without plastic. Starve the beast!

You should always tip in cash. Servers make something like $2 an hour and if you leave a credit card tip, they are taxed on their miniscule pay.
And a lot of times non-cash tips are either shared by the entire staff (no matter how good or bad a job they did) or simply pocketed by management.

 

[Joost]

I sold a single contract for $760 and purchased back for $610. I was scared of holding it for the week and decided to take some profit ($150) and leave with something. Profit could be $400 if I waited another 20min, lol.

 

[scary_robot_music]

You should always tip in cash. Servers make something like $2 an hour and if you leave a credit card tip, they are taxed on their miniscule pay.
And a lot of times non-cash tips are either shared by the entire staff (no matter how good or bad a job they did) or simply pocketed by management.

Thing is, if I order online for pick up I'm a little scared not to tip at that point. I've worked in food service and know there are people who don't have a lot to lose at those jobs who will spit in your food and things like that if they aren't happy with you. I've seen it over stuff like ordering your pizza cut some special way or excessively customizing your order at a burger place. Now that tips are supposed to supplement the pay of the whole staff, I wouldn't risk creating the suspicion you're going to stiff them.

 

[budoslavic]

 

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