This past week’s Sidekick data disaster was so extraordinary, you would think that either T-mobile or Microsoft would issue an explanation. There’s one insider who might have the reason why one hasn’t come yet: it was an inside job.
An anonymous tipster with seemingly extensive knowledge about the Danger/Pink team has this to say to Apple Insider as to what caused the massive data outage:
…someone with access to the servers at the datacenter must have inserted a time bomb to wipe out not just all of the data, but also all of the backup tapes, and finally, I suspect, reformatting the server hard drives so that the service itself could not be restarted with a simple reboot (and to erase any traces of the time bomb itself)… If this was an ordinary sort of failure, the service would have come back within a day, so once again, all signs point to sabotage.
After all the reports we’ve been hearing about the troubled state of the Danger/Pink team, it’s certainly plausible that there are more than a few disgruntled employees who could cause such a catastrophic failure. Whether or not anyone would is another question, but this whole thing is so waaaay out of the ordinary, I’m willing to believe it. [Apple Insider via Fast Company]
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-project-pink-probably-killed-off-the-sidekic-5380011
