Connection Error 911 - [10/4/2020]
You ever hear that old expression not to put all your eggs into one basket? Well, apparently, all these city council people and chiefs of police haven’t.
These idiots hardwired their emergency response services into Microsoft itself. This kind of thing is precisely why critical infrastructure, not only shouldn’t be infused with highly hackable and error-prone software, but should be running on completely proprietary software that doesn’t set automatic updates to the default setting. Imagine trying to start your car but you couldn’t because you needed to upgrade to the new operating system. Picture the traffic signals on a major thoroughfare going haywire because the one mainframe running it went offline. What happened with the 911 services in these cities is exactly why centralization is always a terrible idea and should be avoided at all costs.
But the question remines, why does Microsoft apparently have direct influence over 911 in multiple urban centers. I’ll bet you anything it’s because the people pretending to lead these cities thought it would be cheap and convenient to just let a few IT guys integrate a few offices worth of desktops and call it good. Amazing how many corners they cut considering how much money they mug their residence for. But I’m beyond pitying city-dwellers at this point.
And I wonder, were the police asked to stand down on the onset of these riots solely because city leadership had ill-intent toward their tax-base, or were there sudden and inexplicable communication issues within the departments? Has this been a pattern? Has this kind of thing been happening for months and been kept under wraps?
So how fucked should Microsoft be for this? I’d say very. I’d say if their shitty software is responsible for multiple instances of 911 connection errors, they should have to shell out for each one and provide documentation about their set-up in these cities. I won’t get my hopes up to see Billy Gates have to testify, but for people like him having his name and brand dragged through the mud is a different kind of comeuppance. If there were more software companies to choose from, if monopolies weren’t allowed to run wild and allow the quality of their products and services to fallow because there’s nobody else to buy them from, this kind of shit would be a virtual impossibly.
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