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In the early hours of Friday morning, not long after President Trump concluded his speech at the RNC Convention, news began to pour out on social media about \u201cIT outages\u201d across not just the country, but the globe.\u00a0 Major US airlines Delta, American Airlines and United Air grounded flights.\u00a0 As of this writing, Delta has resumed \u201csome flight departures,\u201d while American Airlines and United Airlines have said they\u2019ve resumed normal operations, but expect delays.<\/p>\n
While the airlines seem to be operating at normal or somewhat normal capacity, the FAA\u2019s National Airspace System Status<\/a> has added to their list of impacted airports.\u00a0 This list is subject to change.<\/p>\n The \u201coutages\u201d have impacted banks, hospitals, police and emergency services, media, among others.<\/p>\n The source of the problem has been identified by CrowdStrike as having to do with the Falcon platform.\u00a0 Crowdstrike is a cybersecurity company who was a critical component in the Democrat-led and Democrat-funded \u201cRussia Hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n CrowdStrike put out a statement on their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This was not a cyberattack.<\/p>\n The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.<\/p>\n We further recommend organizations ensure they\u2019re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels.<\/p>\n\n CrowdStrike, who\u2019s website proclaims them \u201cCybersecurity\u2019s AI-Native Platform for the XDR Era-We Stop Breaches,\u201d<\/em> stated they identified the problematic file, singular, and offer several solutions to remedy the problem, including creating a back-up of the disk volume before proceeding.<\/p>\n Mark Cook is a computer expert who has been investigating election machines, infrastructure and procedures since the 2020 Election.\u00a0 On his website, HandCountRoadShow.org,<\/a> he offered an explanation in layman\u2019s terms, describing the Falcon Platform\u2019s \u201cFalcon Sensor\u201d as a \u201cpart of their Cloud-based endpoint protection platform\u201d:<\/p>\n Think of Endpoint Protection as a firewall on each device that is part of a network. The \u2018cloud\u2019 part of it is similar to a conductor in a orchestra, with the endpoints being those playing the instruments, and the instruments are the individual computers\/servers.<\/p>\n According to Cook, the \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d experienced globally after the \u201coutage\u201d is caused by an update that conflicted with Microsoft Windows, causing machines to get \u201cstuck during reboot,\u201d preventing them from loading the operation software.<\/p>\n In terms of potential impact on our election, Cook writes:<\/p>\n The idiots that implemented our cloud-based voter registration and poll-book systems have created a HUGE abuse vector in our election ecosystem and I\u2019d be shocked if those election systems weren\u2019t also affected by this. And there is nothing that can prevent their being another accidental (or intentional) abuse! Have you considered that this may just be cover for an election hack just prior to\/during an election? It would be perfect cover.<\/p>\n He notes in his article a post<\/a> on X from Katie Hobbs of Arizona regarding the impacts on Arizona, while Maricopa County Elections put out a similar statement that some voting locations have been impacted.\u00a0 Arizona\u2019s primary elections are on July 30th, but, lets be real, its now \u201cElection Month\u201d, not \u201cElection Day,\u201d so of course early voting begins 28 days prior to the 30th.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/qFLxuYvDHV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Maricopa County Elections (@MaricopaVote) July 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Cook offers his advice on how to fix these systems as well.\u00a0 And it is a little more concerning than the watered-down version mentioned earlier:<\/p>\n The affected file in the update is a particular \u2018driver\u2019 that was updated. A \u2018driver\u2019 is a program that runs on the computer that performs a task. This driver is the Falcon driver. To repair it, the affected \u2018driver\u2019 must be removed in order to allow the operating system to boot up, then the new fixed version of the driver must be installed. The huge complication here is that the driver must be removed MANUALLY. A further complication is for servers that have encrypted hard drives because extra steps must be performed to decrypt the hard drive in order for the repair to be implemented. For companies that didn\u2019t follow best-practices on their encryption passwords, their systems will be permanently locked out and unrecoverable.<\/strong><\/p>\n Cook goes on to list a step-by-step for remedying the problem on his website.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Update: Widespread CrowdStrike \u201cOutages\u201d Explained \u2013 Possible Election Implications<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 In the early hours of Friday morning, not long after President Trump concluded his speech at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n