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Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out

Posted by kdawson on from the file-available-but-not-to-you dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Microsoft Office 2003 bug is locking people out of their own files, specifically those protected with Microsoft's Rights Management Service. Microsoft has a TechNet bulletin on the issue with a fix. It looks like they screwed up and let a certificate expire. There's no information on when the replacement certificate will expire, though, or what will happen when it does."

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  1. Unexpected error? by SpacePunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article...
    "Office 2003 users receive the error, "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator,""

    WTF? Is there anyone out there that can point me to an expected error? Can these wannabe programmer motherfuckers ever pass on real information on an error to the end user? Their error messages might as well say, "Our program fucked up, we're dipshits, we don't know what the fuck is going on. In fact, we couldn't have put together a crappier piece of software if we were drunk, or high."

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    1. Re:Unexpected error? by jpmorgan · · Score: 5, Funny

      You would prefer 'Expected error occurred. We could have handled with this transparently, but we'd rather pop up an annoying dialog box?'

    2. Re:Unexpected error? by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Their error messages might as well say, "Our program fucked up, we're dipshits, we don't know what the fuck is going on. In fact, we couldn't have put together a crappier piece of software if we were drunk, or high."

      It would be funnier to get messages like: "Our program fucked up. -- Error code: ss324. Help me. I've been in a cage for the last two years. They feed me the corpses of the programmers who didn't make it through the big flood. I don't want to die. Please help! ... HH/991.DDF. For more information, contact your system administrator."

    3. Re:Unexpected error? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is there anyone out there that can point me to an expected error?

      What's worse is that insulting little click-box that sits there jeering at you saying [OK]

      ...when as we all know, the correct response is "No, it's NOT fucking OK, you dipshit."

  2. A copy protection system called RMS? by mattcsn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, someone at Microsoft has a sense of humour.