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espentan , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

I guess he was ready to play.

PSA: I'm probably old enough to be your father, let me have my terrible jokes/puns.

c0smokram3r , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

“accidentally” 😉

TimeSquirrel , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

I can imagine what they felt like. Like when you accidentally hit "reply all" and send a porn link that was in your clipboard to your entire company while you meant to paste something else.

Squiddly , 9 days ago

My dad did something similar. My mother in law pointed it out and giggled. I facepalmed

admin , 9 days ago

So... What link did you send?

sugar_in_your_tea , 9 days ago

I'm guessing furries.

ace_garp , 8 days ago

😬

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Ohnosecond

scytale , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

A résumé-generating event for sure.

wjrii , 9 days ago

"Facilitated open computing initiatives and exercised independent judgment and mastery of social engineering techniques and forum software."

dan , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft employee accidentally publishes PlayReady code

tl;dr there were two leaks: A Microsoft employee had compiler issues and attached the code to a publicly-visible bug report, and Microsoft's public symbol server had debug symbols for the library (which makes it a lot easier to reverse engineer and debug the production build in a debugger).

Did the employee that accidentally leaked it think that the public developer community was an internal bug tracker? Strange. I wonder if Microsoft do actually use the same site for both internal and external bugs and the employee just selected the wrong category when posting. Seems like an unnecessary risk.