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EricE 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Preliminary Post Incident Review

A file full of zeros is an "undetected error"? Good grief.

dmazzoni 6 months ago [–]

It wasn't a file full of zeros that caused the problem.

While some affected users did have a file full of zeros, that was actually a result of the system in the process of trying to download an update, and not the version of the file that caused the crash.

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