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Yes but any accidental outages from an entity like Kaspersky would have been considered non accidental regardless of the actual root cause. If crowdstrike was Russian, the headlines would be a bit more suspicious about yesterday's event. or if they had brought down Russian infrastructure Russia would have probably been suspicious about American involvement, even if it's just accidental.

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I suspect that regardless of which country CrowdStrike is from, the question would still arise: "should we really outsource information security protection of our critical infrastructure to country X?"

Naturally, the question of malicious intent would most likely be more or less prevalent depending on whether country X is considered an adversary.

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