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Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ddos-ing-yourself dept.

brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.

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  1. In other news . . . by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

    Skype blames global warming on Colonel Mustard. In the conservatory (greenhouse). With the pipe. Since Colonel Mustard callously smashed all the windows in the greenhouse, it released all sorts of greenhouse gases into the environment thus dooming all the gay, baby polar bears unless the polar bears cooled themselves off by running the AC units of their Hummers at full blast. Why does Colonel Mustard hate the environment?

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    1. Re:In other news . . . by the_fat_kid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Next: Everyone flushing a toilet at the same time will cause the east coast to go with out water for a week.

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  2. Anyone know... by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does anyone know what OS those Skype servers are running? If the OS is Linux, then I blame Skype administrators. If it is any flavour of Windows, then I blame Microsoft. Now, some of you might say I am biased.

  3. Re:Wiretap law? by E++99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given that this baby [wiretaping law] was steamrolled through the Congress two weeks ago, the outage seems coincidental.

    Consider that Skype could not tell the users of the real reason even if they wanted to: the law mandates that the forced cooperation be kept in secret.

    Yes, the US government ordered Skype (a UK company, btw) to shut down for two days and blame it on Microsoft, and they complied. Hint: The aluminum foil goes on your head, not crammed forcibly into your ear.
  4. Read TFA by fatcat1111 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Skype didn't blame Microsoft for the outage, they attributed it to a bug in their software. Did the subby even read TFA?

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  5. Re:Reminds me of AOL crashing mail servers by IchBinEinPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of the late 90s where AOL's crashing mail servers ...
    me2!!

  6. Re:Wiretap law? by raju1kabir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very insightful. Perhaps the only logical explanation given the duration of service outage.

    I agree. Every two-day outage of a web service can only logically be explained as a consequence of George Bush spying on you.

    One-day and three-day outages, that's something else entirely.

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