Digg this Yesterday I spoke of a most heinous act of computer modification . Today Microsoft spent a huge chunk of the day attempting to solve a major problem. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/25/microsoft_wga_server.html The WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage - a.k.a. "Disadvantage") servers went completely down. Now I'm not a huge believer in coincidences but if Microsoft has ever had its pants down, this is perhaps a double helping (free wedgie!). Let's see here: 1) Push a secret worldwide update to Automatic Updates out to every computer on the planet. 2) My computer receives the update and VerifyMyPC flags it. 3) WGA servers receive the update completely unaware of what is happening. 4) WGA servers barf (perhaps something in the update they didn't like). All of the WGA servers go down. 5) User PCs attempting to connect to WGA servers can't and therefore are flagged as pirating Windows. 6) Microsoft catches wind of the problem and employees responsible for ...
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