Sunday August 26, 2007 Dave's Bit Bucket
Dave Walker's jottings - mostly pertaining to security
Sunday August 26, 2007 WGA server outage: "I told you so"
Every now and again, something I predict, comes to pass.
While the consequences aren't as dire as I thought, way back when (in that machines aren't shutting down), I wouldn't expect any third-party software house to write anything which uses DirectX, ever again, in case the situation is repeated.
(Outage news via Geoff.)
Update:
Actually, it is as dire as I thought. See here. Microsoft just "upgraded" Vista to introduce "the Black Screen of Death", so successful attacks against WGA servers now will perpetrate a worldwide Vista outage.
Silly boys.
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