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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I’m not in favor of a cashless society but looking at how Apple and Google are pushing their wallets (and how practical it is) you guys need to come to piece with the fact that cash might die with the millennial generation. Most Gen X don’t have / want a physical wallet and money needs to be digital.

With that said, I believe this Crowdstrike fiasco just proved that the biggest threat to IT lies inside the companies themselves and on the managers who decide to use this kind malware without properly understanding the risks. Yes, I’ve said it and I’ll say it again Crowdstrike is malware, anything that messes with Windows at that level is malware, there’s no other description and shouldn’t be allowed by Microsoft to exist.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Industry standard solution that protects companies against malware is malware? Any proper AV will have unrestricted access to system. Only other option is for companies to completely lock down your device.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. It is.

Any system with this level of access to the system should be opensource and tested against actual workloads before shipping updates to prod.

Something like ebpf would make more sense too.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I carry cash and so do many of the younger people I know. It is handy sometimes and happens to be private.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Campaigners say the chaos caused by the global IT outage last week underlines the risk of moving towards a cashless society.

Supermarkets, banks, pubs, cafes, train stations and airports were all hit by the failure of Microsoft systems on Friday, leaving many unable to accept electronic payments.

The Payment Choice Alliance (PCA), which campaigns against the move towards a cashless society, lists 23 firms and groups, at least some of whose outlets take only credit or debit cards.

Cash payments increased for the first time in a decade last year, according to UK Finance, which represents banks.

The GMB Union said the outage reinforced what it had been saying for years: that “cash is a vital part of how our communities operate”.

In March, McDonald’s, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Gregg’s suffered problems with their payment systems.


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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Would Taler be more resilient than a typical EMV/AmEx card? It's designed as an online payment system but it's less centralised, so that could help.

It's already an attractive project due to its privacy feature, and due to it being more regulation-friendly that cryptocurrencies. If it's resilient enough it could act as a digital cash.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cash alternative

I don't think replacing cash is a good idea

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