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Wowfunhappy • today at 12:27 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

But that doesn't explain where the dumps are coming from.

> What further complicates matters is that Chen details how the kernel dumps created after pressing the power button for 8 seconds do, in fact, get sent to Microsoft once the computer turns on again. In fact, he is one of the people who gets to see these dumps and respond to them, so obviously they are indeed rolling in.

Appropriately for halloween, this seems somewhat spooky.


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fwipsy • today at 4:00 PM

I guess that many PCs don't generate the dumps because they shut down after a shorter period, and they're just analyzing kernel dumps from a subset of PCs.

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