I haven't commented on SlashDot since about 2006. Probably the last time I logged in as well. I don't work in IT anymore and haven't since 2009. I don't miss it. Not even the more palatable environment of the time period. However, like all of us, I have watched the insane gaps that have been *Constructed* between long-standing, de-centralized, redundant, fault-tolerant, and fail-safe systems to cloud computing services. IT departments of all sized have, by and large, dismissed the need for risk assessment and certainly, risk management. In fact, the risk management appears to have been the elimination of risk assesment. Like almost all evil, this is rooted in industry, which embeds itself in the education sector. What is happening today is equivalant of the 2008 moment for the financial industry. Today we realize we were full of crap and stuck in an echo-chamber of an orgy that made a lot of money in the short-term, but lost a lot more in an even shorter term.
IT professionals of not so long ago were like soldiers. They would remain vigilant, always prepared, and go in when needed most. Now, they redirect the phones and turn-on the auto-responders, and head for the hills, or the beach, or wherever. Don't worry, the bots will fix it. We really are living in dystopian times.
If you made your millions in IT...good for you. Start investing dividends in the little guys.
Today is not a microsoft problem, it's not a crowd strike problem. It is a poor planning problem.
