Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers 102
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from the browser-is-the-network-is-the-computer dept.
If you use Chrome along with Google's Sync, you may have noticed something strange Monday: normally stable Chrome crashing. An article at Wired (excerpt below) explains why: "Late Monday, Google engineer Tim Steele confirmed what developers had been suspecting. The crashes were affecting Chrome users who were using another Google web service known as Sync, and that Sync and other Google services — presumably Gmail too — were clobbered Monday when Google misconfigured its load-balancing servers. ... Steele wrote in a developer discussion forum, a problem with Google's Sync servers kicked off an error on the browser, which made Chrome abruptly shut down on the desktop. 'It's due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed, and sync servers responding to that by telling all clients to throttle all data types,' Steele said. That 'throttling' messed up things in the browser, causing it to crash."
Re:Why I will never use the "cloud" exclusively (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the most important piece of the summary is not that the googly cloudy system failed (clouds fail, reality different than spin, is it still news?).
It is that it may be possible to crash chrome from remote, proof of concept exploits may follow soon.