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Re: Skype Network Remote DoS Exploit Aug 20 2007 05:39PM
Steven M. Christey (coley mitre org)

The outage being experienced by Skype was apparently due to massive
simultaneous reboots and reconnects after systems installed their
Windows patches.

from http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html:

The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users'
com...

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