Black Swan Event

A black swan event is a rare, hard-to-predict event with severe, wide-reaching consequences.

So what? The source uses it for large-scale outages and near misses, and makes the point that no platform or operating system is immune.

Examples: The 2024 CrowdStrike and Azure outage; the xz Utils backdoor that nearly reached Linux systems worldwide.

Source: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/insights/things-fall-apart-10-blue-screens-of-death-we-thought-we-d-never-see

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