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Tech meltdown revealed a fundamental flaw in plain sight

The global CrowdStrike breakdown revealed just how much of the global IT system is built on inherently unsafe code.

Tom Burton

The world had its three hours of madness early last Friday evening after a simple code bug hit cities worldwide, sparking a rolling global IT breakdown industry veterans say has been waiting to happen for more than 20 years.

For a while, it was unclear when the digital dominoes would stop falling and if the outage was but a passing cyber storm or something far more malicious.

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Tom Burton was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.

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