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Colin Pickard
Colin Pickard
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Once you get away from regular desktop computers, even non-malicious software errors can cause spectacular hardware failures:

  • The Mars Climate Orbiter - over $500 million spent on misson, destroyed by a metric-to-imperial conversion error.

  • Ariane 5 Flight 501 - destroyed by an integer overflow bug, resulting loss of rocket and onboard spacecraft costing more than US$370 million.

  • Two $150million F-22 Raptor aircraft crashes - by different bugs.

  • Bugs in the FADEC software of the Chinook helicopter were at least partly to blame for the crash of ZD576 and death of 29 people.

Once you get away from regular desktop computers, even non-malicious software errors can cause spectacular hardware failures:

  • The Mars Climate Orbiter - over $500 million spent on misson, destroyed by a metric-to-imperial conversion error.

  • Ariane 5 Flight 501 - destroyed by an integer overflow bug, resulting loss of rocket and onboard spacecraft costing more than US$370 million.

  • Bugs in the FADEC software of the Chinook helicopter were at least partly to blame for the crash of ZD576 and death of 29 people.

Once you get away from regular desktop computers, even non-malicious software errors can cause spectacular hardware failures:

  • The Mars Climate Orbiter - over $500 million spent on misson, destroyed by a metric-to-imperial conversion error.

  • Ariane 5 Flight 501 - destroyed by an integer overflow bug, resulting loss of rocket and onboard spacecraft costing more than US$370 million.

  • Two $150million F-22 Raptor aircraft crashes - by different bugs.

  • Bugs in the FADEC software of the Chinook helicopter were at least partly to blame for the crash of ZD576 and death of 29 people.

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Colin Pickard
Colin Pickard
  • 8.7k
  • 3
  • 32
  • 38

Once you get away from regular desktop computers, even non-malicious software errors can cause spectacular hardware failures:

  • The Mars Climate Orbiter - over $500 million spent on misson, destroyed by a metric-to-imperial conversion error.

  • Ariane 5 Flight 501 - destroyed by an integer overflow bug, resulting loss of rocket and onboard spacecraft costing more than US$370 million.

  • Bugs in the FADEC software of the Chinook helicopter were at least partly to blame for the crash of ZD576 and death of 29 people.