{"id":12756,"date":"2024-07-25T00:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2024-07-25T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:29:50","slug":"why-russia-was-less-affected-by-crowdstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12756","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia was less affected by CrowdStrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a rumor: Russia was significantly less affected by the CrowdStrike cyberoutage. Could it be that they were behind it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not. Never attribute to evil that which you can explain by stupidity. But in this case, backwardness was also on Russia&#8217;s side. You might have seen memes about Southwest Airlines, largely unaffected on account of the fact that many of their systems still run on Windows 3.1. Well, it Russia it&#8217;s&#8230; like that, even more so. As an example, here&#8217;s a CrowdStrike-affected display panel from a few days ago at JFK airport in New York City:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12757\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jfk-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, here&#8217;s a departures board from a small Russian airport:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12758\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/vologda-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kind of hard to hack, that one.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12756' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a rumor: Russia was significantly less affected by the CrowdStrike cyberoutage. Could it be that they were behind it? Of course not. Never attribute to evil that which you can explain by stupidity. But in this case, backwardness was also on Russia&#8217;s side. You might have seen memes about Southwest Airlines, largely unaffected <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12756' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-politics","category-51-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12760,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/12760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}