Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords

[Stratelier]

"Forgot" is such an innocent, optimistic term ... like saying you "forgot" to lock the door on your way out, when what you did was _remove the door from its hinges._

[Rycluse]

The mundanity of Tom's sci-fi is always what I find most gripping. Like with the Earworm story, people ultimately just want to get back to their lives.

[ColeRees]

“Facebook became the most trusted site” boy did that one age beautifully

[chessanator]

You missed the chance to name the three groups "Defenders, Detectives, Destroyers" for the alliteration.

[thestateofalaska]

"Everyone has that one single point of failure"

Like that semicolon on line 463

[MegaChickenfish]

Me: Well it's not like this fictional scenario has e-
Tom Scott: *It already happened with Dropbox.*

[ZCubing]

I love how he added (fictional) to the title. xD

[Ken.-]

"Google's Trusted Five"

Marvel is already buying the rights.

[RealationGames]

So detailed story that I actually thought this was true and wondered how could I have missed those news...

[mika]

*reads the video is fictional*
*halfway through thinks its not*
*flips shit inside his head*
*thinks again*
*realises that it's fictional*

[FireSiku]

Youtube recommended this video on April's Fools. Pretty convenient.

[riverw]

Tom, if you wrote a novel about this, I would buy it immediately. You had me thrilled for the entire fifteen minutes.

[Chowder]

It's like the purge, only online.

[noogaibb]

After 10 years, Crowdstrike proofed that this video is still spot on with onosecond

[larynxaustrene]

She got caught at the airport, Her flight got delayed the airport ran google systems.
Just the best ending ever!

[lemapp]

Back in the early Internet days, I worked at a company doing a presentation to a group of future major companies. An engineer at a remote site, was told to wipe a machine. He executed the command that raced through all of its directories including linkages to main servers. The presentation began to disappear. Unfortunately this also affected the hundreds of sites we hosts around the world. This type of 'simple' failures happens more often than you realize. It's not always reported.

[gesit]

The worst thing is, I remembered the talk a few months later after seeing it and didn't remember this was a fictional story. I told many people about this, like it really happened, well everyone was shocked but believed it.

[tommysandal]

THIS. Is a prime example of why you should always read descriptions before watching a video. LOL

[frank_]

Well, this seems very relevant today! Just got my flight cancelled for the Crowdstrike failure today... 🙄 Impacted milions of lifes and caused so many problems! Fortunately I'm only stuck in Sicily for a few more days, but some people were less lucky I feel, as also hospitals got affected by this...!

[mickeleh]

A marvelous comical geeky horror fiction with just enough points of specificity and verisimilitude to keep you awake at night.