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THE INCREDIBLE JEFF CHILDERS CONECTS THE DOTS….WOW
Prepare to don your tinfoil caps in astonishment. You probably thought the week had already delivered its full payload and couldn’t possibly get any more interesting. But another shipment has unexpectedly arrived. You ask, how could 2024, in a single week, beat the miraculous physical and political comeback of Donald J. Trump and the historic civil war tearing apart the Democrat party? Haha! Amateurs. There’s lots more. Let us begin with the news of how most of the world’s computers became useless, blue-screened bricks overnight. (I didn’t notice right away; I use Mac.) Bloomberg yesterday:
The sinking of the world’s computers was just the icy tip of the conspiracy theory iceberg. Wait till you get a load of this.
But first, let’s get up to speed on yesterday’s developments. As it happens, this time, I am a software expert. I put myself through college writing custom software, a lucrative pastime I started when I was twelve, greatly annoying my parents, who wished I would get outside more and quit asking for nerdy computer gear. It is true that, now I’m a lawyer, it’s been a while since I coded anything, but I still know my way around the premises.
Google Whistleblower and senior developer Zach Voorhies yesterday posted the CrowdStrike crash error log, which can be easily found in internal computer files if you know where to look. And then Zach diagnosed the error, which appears to be the most basic kind of C++ programming mistake, something like lazily leaving a metal fork on the plate when you slide it into the microwave.
I’ll spare you the details, but for our tech-savvy readers, here’s the link to Zach’s diagnostic post. The gist was that the error pushed by the so-called “Global IT Security” company bringing down the world’s critical infrastructure was so basic that it tends to suggest either grotesque, DEI-levels of incompetence or intentionality.
With that in mind, now consider the following timeline.
On July 25th, 2019 —two years into Trump’s presidency and almost five years ago to the day— President Trump held his fateful call with Ukraine’s not-so-funny President Zelensky. The call is best known for Trump’s request for Zelensky to investigate the Biden crime family’s crooked business in that corrupt country, which caused the deep state to freak out and kick off the historic impeachment lawfare.
But that wasn’t all. Behold, yesterday’s Economic Times’ headline, already connecting the dots:
That’s right. Trump not only asked Zelensky about Biden’s business in Ukraine, but he also asked about CrowdStrike’s secret file servers which were located there, secured from meddling US law enforcement. There’s too much to get into here, but here’s a snapshot in President Trump’s own words:
https://x.com/Travis_4_Trump/status/1814494211393130987
But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, one day after Trump officially became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, and the same day that CrowdStrike cocked-up the world, President Trump and Martial Law Administrator Zelensky enjoyed a widely publicized but private phone call. From this morning’s Kyiv Post:
Let’s be honest, the Kyiv Post is the official organ of the Ukrainian government. There was no record of the call’s contents, but the article reported that Zelensky was very kind to President Trump, congratulating him on his nomination and expressing sympathy for his near-death experience, and then reported the former comedian was suddenly and unexpectedly ready to “work with” President Trump:
It is difficult to read those paragraphs as anything besides a quiet Trump endorsement and another slam on Joe Biden’s battered brainstem.
Yesterday, media widely described the CrowdStrike error as a “historic global outage” and as the largest and most destructive computer bug in history. CrowdStrike is toast. Many articles reported that many businesses have still not recovered, raising the highly awkward question of whether CrowdStrike’s antivirus cure is worse than the viral disease.
This is very bad news for CrowdStrike. It’s an open question how the company can survive. More importantly, CrowdStrike used to enjoy comprehensive anonymity and was able to operate behind the scenes on almost every Windows computer on the planet with nobody watching. But not any more.
And so, it begins. Yesterday, as if on cue, Elon Musk announced his companies were ditching the “global security” service, widely reported in media like Bloomberg.
CrowdStrike’s software is everywhere. Including embedded in many U.S. voting systems. Arizona’s Maricopa County, which is amidst early voting, reported polling place outages related to the CrowdStrike bungle, raising metric tons of questions about election security, internet connectedness, and so forth:
https://x.com/MaricopaVote/status/1814312438847746284
Remember, we are still in the “figuring out what happened” phase. We have not even begun to discuss the “what should we do next” part. Unless the company gets saved by some kind of unimaginable miracle, CrowdStrike appears to be on the chopping block.
Let’s recap the timeline:
— July 25th, 2019: Trump calls Zelensky to ask about CrowdStrike.
— December 18th, 2019: first articles of impeachment filed.
— (2020-2024: The Wilderness Years.)
— July 18th, 2024: Trump accepts the Republican nomination (which means he can now legally talk to foreign leaders).
— July 19th, 2024: CrowdStrike makes a mistake that could end the company.
— July 19th, 2024: Trump calls Zelensky again. Kyiv boosts Trump.
Those are all established facts. Zelensky, Ukraine, and CrowdStrike bookend the timeline. It seems like Trump is picking up right where he left off, with a nail in CrowdStrike’s forehead framing the conversation. I’m not speculating about anything. But it is unlikely, to say the least, that this series of coincidences could possibly be unrelated.
So. It might be a conspiracy. But if so, it could be the good kind.
Right now, I am assuming that Crowdstrike is mostly provisioned on corporate networks, not home machines.
Consequently, home users are not seeing issues, and patches should not be expected because none are needed.
Point of sale payments systems could well be a different matter one might expect.
Another dot from NYC Lila
Internet failure from Crowdstrike was global and affected air traffic, hospitals, businesses, all wall street markets. The shooter Crooks had encrypted accounts through crowdstrike. If he were a CIA patsy, similar to the ones FBI set up in the bogus Gretchen Witmer kidnapping, they would have shut it down to erase all record of the kid’s contacts. also now multiple witnesses saw a second shooter (CIA?) on the deck of the water tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LouUbMYb7Bc&t=1s
Looking for confirmation on Crooks with Crowdstrike …. seems blunt to shut down the globe to conceal these tracks.
Watters on Waltz on the shooter’s encrypted accounts
https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1814104725954207850