[AceyMan]

/set Devil's Advocate mode:

from the reporting so far, no one has died as a result of the Crowdstrike botch. For my money, that sounds like it's not being used in 'critical industry'.

/unset

There were several 911 service outages included in the news yesterday, so I would definitely say agree those fall into the category. I haven't seen how many hospitals were deeply affected; I know there were several reports of facilities that were deferring any elective procedures.

[logbiscuitswave]

I almost had to defer a procedure for one of my cats because my vet’s systems were all down. This meant they couldn’t process payments, schedule appointments, use their X-ray machine, or dispense prescriptions. (Thankfully, they had the ingenuity to get their diagnostic equipment online through other means, and our prescriptions had already been dispensed so we didn’t have to reschedule.)

I would imagine it’s the same story at human hospitals too that ran afoul of this. I wouldn’t expect life-critical systems to go offline, but there’s many other more mundane systems that also need to function.