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Reason
J.D. Tuccille

E.U. Regulations Made the CrowdStrike Fiasco Much Worse

The recent chaos caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike was a warning that the world's technological infrastructure may be a tad more fragile then we'd been led to believe. Business was disrupted, people were inconvenienced, and billions of dollars in damages were suffered because of the screw-up. Delta Airlines, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike are only a few of the companies pointing fingers at each other and getting ready for courtroom battles. But it appears that, yet again, government regulation made a bad situation even worse.

It Started With an E.U.-Imposed Settlement

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