Microsoft Update Crash A minor glitch in the software update last week
caused chaos for the banking industry. Airlines and hundreds of millions of people across
the globe could not get where they wanted to go. This massive outage could have been avoided,
but the company's responsible have sent millions convincing regulators to back off. We're doing
fine. We don't need any help. We don't need any regulations. Well, look, it's so apparent. You've
got Microsoft that is trying to blame this on. Yeah. They're saying the CrowdStrike update.
The CrowdStrike. Yeah. Okay. Well, no, that is nonsense. The truth is, the federal government
said to Microsoft, and they said to Amazon, and they said to Google, you guys have a big
problem because you own everything. There's no diversity in the cloud system. Everything's
going into the cloud and being controlled by companies that don't have the capacity to
do it. And they said, no, if you do that, you're gonna interfere with innovation. We've got
this. Don't worry about this regulator. We've got it under control. You think back, it was the same
thing with railroads. This is the closest to the railroad monopoly that I've ever seen. And for
some reason, we act like it's different. It's exactly the same thing. They need to be busted up.
You can't have these people controlling all this. Right. The FTC has been on Microsoft's
back for over a year telling them, hey, this is gonna cause a problem. We really need to
have some hearings about this. We need you guys to respond. And every Microsoft response was, you
guys are overreacting. Everything is perfectly fine. Who do you think you're talking to here?
We've got this under control. In fact, as recently as two days before the outage, the federal
regulators were warning, something horrible is going to happen because you have not diversified.
It is so consolidated that something as simple as a software update crippled the world.
Yeah, understand, an update. This was run the update and everything stopped. And the
point, this is a massive threat to the economy. It is.
I mean, if somebody figured out how to make this
an element of war, we'd be in big trouble. Well, and I guarantee you, after seeing
what happened, they're working on it. They absolutely are working on it.
No question. So you have this argument, you can't regulate us. We're so smart. We have
a security system. They knew they didn't have a security system. Matter of fact, it showed they
didn't want to spend money on the security system. It would've cost them too much money to do what
the government was telling 'em to do. You have to have a security system. And they lied, basically.
They absolutely made up this lie that we've got it under control. There's nothing to worry about
and that the consolidation of our companies, there should be no limits. If it's Amazon, Google,
and Microsoft, we should be able to control the Big Tech Arrogance world of tech. And you see how dangerous
this is. It's just so freaking dangerous. Well, honestly, I think you bring up a really
great point here with the arrogance of these companies. Look, we're the tech guys. We're so
much smarter than everybody else. You can't sit there in Washington, DC, with your law degree and
tell us how to run a tech company. You don't know anything about this. Well, they know enough
to have warned you for years that this would happen. You dismissed it and then it happened.
But they've also spent so many millions of dollars lobbying these same organizations
and lawmakers to not do anything about it, that it probably would've been cheaper just to
invest in the security than buying everybody off. That's an interesting point. If you look at
the multi-millions of dollars that they paid to politicians to make 'em vote their way. And you
just said, okay, let's regroup on that. Could we have done what the government was telling us we
needed to do? That we needed a security system and had we not lied to them about, yes,
we have a security system. That all this consolidation and all this power being held up in
the handful of service cloud service providers, if they had been honest, and if they had
just taken that money and made it work, we'd had never had this problem. You're not gonna
change this unless you sue them and I think that's what's coming. I think you're gonna see some big
lawsuits on loss of business that, matter of fact, we're being asked to do that. We're being asked
to handle some of these big companies that say, look, they cost us gazillions of dollars. I
mean, look at the airline industry. They're still don't have it under control. So, as
this progresses, it's gonna probably take a couple of more events like this, hopefully
not as serious as this, but a couple of more events before anybody starts paying attention.
And then you have AT&T. According to AT&T, the ATT Data Breach company recently suffered a massive data breach
that exposed calls and text messages. It exposed all that data about all of their customers.
This massive breach wasn't even a blip on the media's radar, but hundreds of millions of
people have been violated and they don't even know what happened. Well, the reason the media
didn't report is because the mainstream media or corporate media, it's not mainstream anymore.
I wish they'd do away with that term, mainstream media. It's not. It's far from it. But they
wouldn't tell this story because the advertising. Yeah.
The advertising is monstrous that AT&T is paying MSNBC and CNN and Fox and CBS, ABC,
they're paying so much money that they weren't about to do a story. This is a serious story.
It it really is because this is not, like you said, okay, it's not just, uh-oh, some
data got out. Every customer, if you have AT&T, I have AT&T, my data was part of this. Everybody
who has AT&T your data was part of this. They got your call logs, they got your text message
logs. Now the company swears, they didn't get the content of your text messages.
Oh, they got enough. But they got your location data. I mean, this
is gonna be used by, probably improperly, I imagine by police. Right? Uh-oh, look, we got you
talking to this guy. We got you in this location where a crime was committed. This is horrible and
has horrible ramifications. But the personal data itself, and nobody knows that this happened, this
was a big news. And honestly, this is a one page story. I mean, my God, this is such a huge data
breach, one of the biggest in the history of data. But it's just like everything about dysfunctional
corporate media right now. Can you imagine choosing, having the guys in the top office say,
no, don't do this story because these people pay so much money for advertising.
Right. We've seen it firsthand. You've seen it. I've seen
it firsthand. They'll make the call, you better kill this story, or else. Matter of fact, my
daughter, Sara's working on a case, a baby formula case that is killing preemie children. Okay. There
was a $60 million verdict in the case. And so Fox said, yeah, this is a big story. People ought
to know that you got a product out there that's killing people. But it was Abbott. It was these
companies that make this stuff that advertise so much on their station. They killed the story. They
killed it like, a week before they were supposed to do it. So this is just another example. And
then I guess the thing that really is concerning, they say, well, they don't actually have your
social security numbers or your date of birth. Can you imagine how easy it is to find that with just
these little traces of information that they take from your calls and your texts? I mean, it's just
a ridiculous argument. And the other part of it is we're, as taxpayers, we're having to pay the feds
to go out and do all this investigation and find out what happened. And AT&T, they, what the hell?
They don't care. The feds are spending the money, taxpayers are spending the money, to stop all
this. They're not spending a dime from the standpoint of really making this a safe system.
Well, and thanks to the Patriot Act, they don't ever punish any of these tech
companies for the massive data breaches because they rely on them when they need
to kinda skirt what's legal and what's not, because we've been covering that for 20 years now.
Yeah. Talk about that. People don't get that, this symbiotic relationship between
the feds and these companies. Yeah. And again, we have covered this for 20
years now, the fact that these telecom companies, they get in trouble a lot. They screw up a lot.
They never get held accountable because every time it says, oh, okay, well, AT&T or Verizon,
whoever you are, you did something really bad here. You let everybody's data go out to the
public. Okay. But we're also working with you and providing you with all of this information,
we've got these government contracts to work with you so that you can have this surveillance
data on all the bad guys. Do you want to lose access to the so-called bad guys? No.
So just forget the data breach. Forget all the bad stuff. We're your buddies.
We're the best. We're your friends. Yeah.