Tuesday, November 5, 2024: Suddenly, millions of computers turn blue. A message appears: “There is a problem and you need to update your computer.”
Millions of Americans who vote that day to elect the country’s president panic as America stops working. For several hours, millions of computers with windows they were stuck in this situation.
The news quickly talks about a computer bug, a bug when applying an update to a security program.
Millions of people swallow this in shock, as if nothing had happened.
The Internet, and specifically Elon Musk’s X, is circulating other hypotheses. Not only America is affected, but all NATO countries. Could this be an attack by Russia, threatened by the Alliance’s new, more aggressive strategy? Or China, which sees NATO approaching its door?
US authorities are, however, reassuring: “This is not a hacker attack in cyberspace, but a combination of technical problems that first led to the interruption of Microsoft Azure systems, the cloud of the American IT giant,” they explain on television. “And then a bug in the forced update of the CrowdStrike cybersecurity platform delivered the fatal ‘blow’, blocking everything. Specifically, an update of the Falcon Sensor software which, according to what has been reconstructed, should have been minimal.”
Microsoft, of course, immediately took “measures” for the malfunctioning of its platforms and applications, and in the afternoon a representative of the multinational stated that “all problems have been resolved”. In addition, a post was made on the Microsoft 365 account guaranteeing that “the impact has been fully resolved”.
George Kurtz, CEO and president of Texas-based CrowdStrike, apologized to users for the inconvenience in a post on X and clarified again: “This was not a security incident or cyberattack. Our customers are fully protected: the issue has been identified, isolated, and a solution implemented.”
So, the security of major businesses around the world can be compromised by a simple bug? And exactly – what a paradox – by updating a security program?
But with these and with these the american election are postponed. The consequences are devastating. A threat of “civil war” looms over this unique superpower. As for the damage? They are calculated by the Codacons in billions of dollars worldwide.
Fantastic script
Fortunately, this is just one scenario. If the computer outage that left humanity in panic yesterday happened on the day of the presidential election, is it a fantastic scenario? Not so much. It could have been a “dry run” by the so-called “deep state” to prevent Trump from being elected, claim conspiracy theorists who have appeared once again.
Far be it from us to entertain any conspiracy theory. But who can rule out that the “surprises” are not over? And could they reappear?
We are definitely referring to the surprises that await us until the US elections in November, leaving aside those that have been with us for some years. Surprises regarding the certification of the veracity of matters that were previously considered “fake news”. For example, the artificial origin of the Covid-19 virus has now been confirmed by 90% of scientists.
The ineffectiveness and poor safety of some vaccines have been admitted by the manufacturers themselves.
Even certainties about the anthropogenic causes of the climate crisis are being challenged by a growing number of Nobel laureates.
The predictions of an increasingly likely victory for Trump, who miraculously escaped an attack very similar to Kennedy’s, make us imagine a completely unexpected and improbable context for the course of the sole superpower and the global economy, geopolitics, and history in general.
There is no doubt that great care must be taken when judging the facts, coldly analyzing the cases, the causes and the effects. Something that the so-called mainstream media has not done for some time, aligned with a single narrative imposed by shareholders and “the system”.
Is it an exaggeration to think that many decisions taken at a global level by various leaders are attributed to this “deep state”?