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The 6 Most Infamous Software Bugs in History
Infamous Software Bugs
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#12I'd add the Morris Worm to the list, probably one of the most influential ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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#13I came across this recently, really interesting list with further links
Software Horror Stories : http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachumd/verify/horror.html
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#14You yanks and your aversion to the metric system...
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#15I would add Knight capital thingy on top: http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/09/technology/knight-expensive-...
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#16I'd add the Morris Worm to the list, probably one of the most influential ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Which was written by one of the Y Combinator founders (Robert Tappan Morris)
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#17You yanks and your aversion to the metric system...
The scapegoat for what was clearly an organizational failure. Why was the system using multiple units of measure. Did it pass navigation tests prior to launch? Was the test flawed?
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#18I'd add the Morris Worm to the list, probably one of the most influential ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Which happened to be targeted to UNIX systems.
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#19Knight Trading's 10 million dollars per minute bug is a good one too:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-t...
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#20Every software engineer should be aware of the RISKS digest (aka USENET's comp.risks).
The mailing list and digest just celebrated it's 30th birthday in August. There's an incredible wealth of history here regarding bugs, related issues, and the overall risks of our dependency on computers in society.
RISKS broke most of the major stories of the day including the Morris Worm, the AT&T Long Distance collapse, the Mars Climate Orbiter unit error, the Mars Pathfinder priority lockup, the Therac-25, the first email spam, the Pentium FDIV bug, and thousands of other interesting, amusing, and/or scary bugs.