Big Bugs!
Wired has a cool story listing “History’s Worst Software Bugs.” Among them: the radiation therapy device that killed at least five people; the non-random random number generator; and, most spectacularly, the bug planted by the CIA in control software for the USSR’s trans-Siberia gas pipeline that caused the “the largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet’s history.*”
Not mentioned: the ongoing productivity-killing bug that is Microsoft Windows.
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* bigger than Krakatoa?
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