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  Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out

  Posted: December 14th, 2009, 8:20am CET by kdawson

  Tags:  bug  

  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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