Monday, December 13, 2010

Catastrophic Computer Bugs

Some seemingly minor software bugs that had catastrophic impact (or nearly so).

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/363580/when-computers-go-wrong/2

I do remember the awful blackout in the fall of 2003 and it's amazing to know that it was caused by a race condition bug in a nearly 4 million lines of C code.

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