Crowdstrike Struck

The worst computer outage in human history has brought down transport and banking systems all over the world. The problems seem to have been caused by an update to Microsoft provided by Crowdstrike, an important provider of security tools for computer software.

What the mainstream media do not seem to have noticed is the history of Crowdstirke. In 2016, someone stole a huge stash of documents and emails from the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). These ended up on WikiLeaks.

Crowdstrike was responsible for the security of the DNC computers. The servers were never given to the FBI investigators because an investigation had been conducted by CrowdStike. They perpetuated the idea that the data was stolen by Russian hackers. This suggestion became one of the bases for the claims that Donald Trump was in collusion with the Russians. Special counsel Mueller investigated the claims intensively but found no actual proof that collusion had occurred.

In 2019, the president of Crowdstike admitted that they had no evidence that the Russians had stolen the DNC data. He explained that they could see the data had gone but did not see it going, or where it had gone.

Independent investigators have shown that the data theft was an inside job by someone with a grievance against the DNC. The data was moved quicker than could be done over the internet at that time, as had been suggested.

So it is ironic that Crowdstike, which colluded with efforts to bring Donald Trump down via the Russiagate accusations, was taken down on the very day that Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for the US presidency.

I am not generally into conspiracy theories, but this alignment of events is too close to be just a coincidence.