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napolux ◴[] No.45036831[source]
The most deadly bug in history. If you know any other deadly bug, please share! I love these stories!
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1. benrutter ◴[] No.45036872[source]
Probably many rather than a single bug, but the botched London Ambulance dispatch software from the 90s, is probably one of the most deadly software issues of all time, although there aren't any estimates I know of that try to quantify the number of lives lost as a result.

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/papers/lascase....