History’s Worst Software Bugs

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Wired magazine shares History’s Worst Software Bugs

July 28, 1962 – Mariner I space probe.

1982 – Soviet gas pipeline

1985-1987 – Therac-25 medical accelerator.

1988 – Buffer overflow in Berkeley Unix finger daemon.

1988-1996 – Kerberos Random Number Generator.

January 15, 1990 – AT&T Network Outage.

1993 – Intel Pentium floating point divide.

1995/1996 – The Ping of Death.

June 4, 1996 – Ariane 5 Flight 501.

November 2000 – National Cancer Institute, Panama City.

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