Steve is a pretty smart guy that you should generally listen to. Definitely subscribe to his blog if you haven’t.
Spat wrote up a nice little entry on a “feature” in Windows Server 2003 Gold that was actually pretty dangerous that was sort of fixed in SP1.
I first heard about it while sitting in a bar in SEATAC after I had flown into Seattle for the MVP summit several years ago. I had never met Dean and he and Jimmy “the Swede” came to pick up Rick Kingslan (this was prior to him becoming MCS when he had no reason to cranky all of the time but he still was… lol) and I so we didn’t have to bus out to Redmond. On later review of Jimmy’s driving it probably might have been better to have taken the bus. My heart wouldn’t be short of the 2 years it lost on that drive… It would have been 3 years shorter of life but once in a while, Jimmy would actually look back at the road instead of at the back seat to talk to us. So I had been talking with Dean for like 2 years and never met him (nor Jimmy for that matter). They came up behind me in the luggage area to get me, they made some comment about me looking like a geek or my geek t-shirt or carrying a geeky backpack or something stupid like that, obviously it was stupid or else I would recall it… 😉
So anyway, there Jimmy, Dean, and I are sitting in a bar waiting for the ever late Rick and Dean was like, you have _GOT_ to see this… He whips out his little IBM thinkpad (where does he keep it??) and with Jimmy the Swede sitting there next to us in the airport bar (we were waiting for the fashionably late and always cranky Rick Kingslan to show up) promptly spins up a whole damn virtual forest and then blows away the KRBTGT account right in front of me and done in such a way that it would make any pissed off fired AD Administrator grin and cackle like Dr. Evil[1].
I looked at Dean and said something along the lines of “shit”. And then something like, that there are maybe 10 people in the world that could figure that one out if it happened with most of them not doing support at MSFT. I know if I had heard someone said it happened I would be like, what are you smoking, right up until I saw the state of the forest with my own eyes and then I would wonder what *I* had been smoking. It was truly one of those moments when you _know_ how something works and then you see it work in an entirely opposite way of what it is supposed to do.
Ah so anyway, if you want to read a little about it, check out
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2006/06/14/630435.aspx
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[1] Imagine something happening like that 8-10 months after someone is fired? Would you even think to blame the person you fired? Well if it wasn’t me that you fired that is.[2]
[2] This is actually an unfair portrayal of me. I don’t hurt companies I used to work for, you never know when you will be working for them again. My current position is with a company that previously fired me even though they said all sorts of bad things about why they fired me previously. I guess I wasn’t so bad. 😉 The latest company that fired me would love to have me back too I expect. It could possibly be a reality because the Director Of IT and the CIO were the folks I believe were involved in getting me shot out the door[3] and have both left the compay now under somewhat questionable circumstances but it would take a serious salary and promises to get me to go back; they all know that I am worth it though I think, my ideas and work tend to save a company a lot of money if they listen. My work and ideas directly contributed to savings in the millions of dollars in the first year I had my last position at that place. Can’t imagine how much I have saved them over the years. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast there, but I also know how hard I would have to work if I went back. Plus I am fairly comfortable where I am now, I wouldn’t mind seeing a large chunk of my pay I lost joining this company coming back to me but I will survive.
 [3] I only know that the call came directly from the Director Of IT to release me immediately but I keep hearing rumours about the CIO too.
