Software is hard

A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a software service. As big as it was, I doubt anybody will lose their job over the Microsoft Teams outage even though it had an impact on millions of paying customers….

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SCaLE 16x Wrapup

I had a great time at SCaLE 16x the past four days. SCaLE was one of the first big conferences I went to when I got myself back into the technical side of the tech business, and remains my favorite. It’s a special time and a special place with special people.

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It’s not just a problem “over there.”

The American Red Cross is running computers with an obsolete and unsupported operating system, and using them to collect HIPAA protected personal health and other information! If a Russian or North Korean hacker can break your system because you’re using 16 year-old software that hasn’t been supported for two years, then you as an organization have failed.

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