[GLLUG] MS's WGA servers fail

[Michael Rudas]

--- Thomas Hruska  wrote:

> Michael Rudas wrote:
>> Wow!  Talk about a "single point of failure."

> Hmm...interesting.  I wonder if this is directly related to the problems
> Microsoft had/is having:
<http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2007/08/most-coincidental-event.html>
(newer link substituted)

> (Sequence of events:  Worldwide update occurs -> WGA servers barf ->
> User PCs disabled.  Awfully coincidental...)

Here's Bruce Schneier's take on events:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/33lx5e

I guess I gotta get ME a Giant Stuffed Unicorn too...

-- Mikey