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If software engineers had the ability and the authorization to shoot people, you betcha.


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Do you think putting screen recording software on their computers would have prevented the bug?


Who died due to the crowdstrike bug?


Unclear .. but there will be wrongful death cases laid.

See: https://www.wired.com/story/hospitals-crowdstrike-microsoft-...

and consider that it's absolutely certain that people died during the crowdstrike outage and recovery period (people die in and around healthcare locations all the time).

There will be some that died due to a delay in getting treatment, and|or other reason (see article for possible causes) and rightly or wrongly lawsuits will follow and judges will be making determinations of cause, etc.




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