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		chgs on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo... I have never seen malware take half the worlds IT systems offline, even in the days of code red and slammer

rasz on July 19, 2024 [–]

Blaster legit took down over half of computers on the internet.

chgs on July 19, 2024 | [–]

But the effects on society were far less because “online” wasn’t synonymous to “internet”

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