“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.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Users of Office 2003 that have been avoiding the change to 2007 were in for a nasty surprise over the weekend. If their company uses Microsoft’s Rights Management Service to protect their documents then thanks to an expired security certificate then when a file was accessed, instead of the file opening they were greeted with “Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator”. Slashdot has information on what happened as well as a way to use a temporary certificate to regain access to your files.
