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August 26, 2007
Microsoft's WGA Service Croaks
Ars Technica: Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore:
If you use Windows, do your best to avoid anything that requires a ping to WGA. That means you should stay away from patches and add-ons until the coast is clear. WGA will not reach out across the Internet and deactivate your copy of Windows, but you should avoid talking to a WGA server for any reason.
Stay away from patches and add-ons? On a Windows machine? Just pull whatever cable your 'net connection arrives through out of the wall while you're at it.
After an initial estimate of Tuesday the issue is now fixed. I'll be until Tuesday wrapping my head around the wisdom of offering any disincentive at all to patching a Windows box. I don't think there's any to be found. Keeping "pirates" from getting patches is just closing the barn door after the horse is out, then burning the barn down around all the innocent horses when those unpatched machines roll over that much more easily when confronted with malware.
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