That is not an understatement. This is literally the largest failing of internet infrastructure to date.

Alas, using the internet has given us a lot of efficiency. The trade off is resilience. The entire global system is more brittle than ever but it what gave it such speed.

I'd argue the infrastructure of the Internet isn't to blame here, it sounds like a software/config bug at Crowdstrike. There are wider discussions around over-reliance on cloud-based tech too. But the good old Internet can hold its head up high IMHO.

That is a fair clarification. More an issue with the stuff on top of the internet.

As per your point, the base infrastructure is working perfectly for better or worse!

I'm not really sure cloud has much blame here either.

Imagine it's 1998 and Norton push a new definition file that makes NAV think kernel32 is a virus. The only real difference today is that always-on means we all get the update together, instead of waiting for mum to get off the phone this evening.

We got an email this morning telling us none of our usual airlines could take bookings right now. That wouldn't have been much different in 1998, airline bookings have been centralised for my entire lifetime.

In a way, this might end up being a blessing in disguise. It's an emergency drill for something potentially catastrophic (e.g. massive cyberattack, solar flare), and it's a large enough wake-up call that society can't just ignore it.

I hope so but never under estimate businesses to cut corners to stay on top. I hope I am wrong.

It's not a failing of Internet infrastructure.

It's one vendor pushing out a bad update, and thousands of companies with no supply chain diversity.

I responded to another comment with this and you are right, that is a fair clarification.

The base infrastructure worked perfectly fine. The stuff on top of it, not so great.

This not Internet failure but software functuality failure from a cyber security update , thios is why i never use real cloud security but rather use home cloud security on my Serverpc/NAS/SAN , when it crashes okay so be it i dont get acces to my cloud , but i allways use a online backupcloud that does not need instalation for most important stuff , u should never rely on 1 softweare to do all allways have backups

Expectations: Russia, China or North Korea will take the Western tech infrastructure down.

Reality: the infrastructure took down itself.

Did you mean the Azure thing or CS thing? Just happened that the Azure thing did not impact me as I was already off...

It isn't clear at this point that the Azure thing and the CS thing are unrelated

Azure issue and CS issues are separate incidents. They are not related.

Indeed this is different , This is world wide and it does not even only affect Windows pcs but with some friends of mine Linux and Macs are in trouble 2 , this is not ur Windows Vista BS problem etc