For those unaware, the great capacitor plague of the 2000s has an interesting backstory: it is believed to be the result of corporate espionage gone wrong. Somewhere in the chain of theft, then transfer, then use by a competitor, a misappropriated formula for capacitor electrolyte was altered. Faulty capacitors ended up in all sorts of electronics, including the particular Abit VP6 motherboard which failed and led to the creation of badcaps.net.