Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on impact of global cyber outage

Published 2024-07-19
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the impact of CrowdStrike's IT issues on transportation, whether Biden is ready to end his election bid, and more.

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  • Side note. Can we get someone this intelligent & well spoken to yk lead the country??🤷🏾‍♂️
  • @lppoqql
    This is just a company skimping on labor cost by hiring cheaper programmer. Imagine if this was an AI Agent and we already cut all the programmers? There would be no recovery maybe for months. We really need to think about redundancy in the age of AI, not just maximize profit.
  • We shouldn't have software companies become a monopoly and we should require regulations.
  • @sdkfz2519
    I hope one day our country will have a president as intelligent, classy, competent, mannerable, and humble as Pete.
  • I swear they dont ever test run their updates before FORCING YOU TOO UPDATE. Everytime i am forced to update my computer runs worse and worse.
  • Surprised that Crowdstrike lost "only" 10% today... a few days ago ASML lost almost 20% on mere rumours of stricter trade regulations with China, and haven't recovered since. Crowdstrike is already on the rebound... while I can imagine that many companies are going to review their corporate anti malware strategy.
  • @DRventura333
    As layman with no technical background, one would presume with any new "update" one would use it in a phased and with some test live systems before it is massly distributed. Would this not be possible with whatever this update was? Major systems seem to have been affected, critical systems like 911, medical databases, people's online bank account, airline ticketing system, people's home systems, etc,. This is very dangerous as who knows what else might be affected and further ramifications. There are already too many data breaches causing many Americans major financial issues/losses. Do Americans now need to be worried about IT companies causing issues with regular system updates?
  • @jbnavarrete
    Pete is such a good communicator. We needs leaders like him
  • @danrich6448
    Gas pumps and cash registers down in my area in Minnesota.
  • @PaulieTan
    Secretary Pete Buttigieg thank you!
  • It's not just a matter of restoring networks. The faulty update caused Windows to crash (BSOD) on millions of computers. These systems are bricked until someone with enough tech savvy gets into them on site via arcane methods (safe boot, directory searches using the command line, finding and deleting the defective update files inside the directory structure) and brings them back up so that their regular users can use them again. These systems cannot be fixed remotely with a new update.
  • Based on the abundance of convoluted code it is obvious corporations are now hiring cheap talentless programmers.