It doesnt matter how tight your security is; bugs will still find their way to your setup.
Bugs dont raise any security issues but can break the functionality of your operating system.
The world has witnessed many exciting bugs that cause great havoc.
Below, we have listed some of the famous and interesting bugs in the computer science world.
Patriot Missile Software failure
Iraqi missiles hit 28 soldiers dead and left behind 98 injured.
The Gangnam-style video got more than a 32-bit integer count, and maybe you might have also viewed it.
Y2K Bug
During the 1960s, computer engineers used 2-digit representations of the years like 70 for 1970.
Windows Calculator Bug
Windows calculator had a bug; have you ever noticed it in the past?
It is the wrong answer for the square root of [9]-3.
According to the NASA fact sheet, this caused a $328 million loss.
Race Condition Bug
A Blackout across 8 US states and Canada caused about 50 million people.
This was then described as the race condition bug, which affected the people.
Theres a bug that interfered with the computer chip.
The chip gave wrong answers, making the problem blow up into the mother of all public relations disasters.
However, things didnt go right, and the Maps failed to give proper directions.
Even the bug displayed Googles homepage as malware.
The bug created lots of havoc, and the effects lasted around 55 minutes.
But the bug was fixed after that, and everything went normal.
Marine 1 Exploded
In 1962, the first spacecraft of NASAs Mariner program designed to fly on Venus exploded.
It was about 4 minutes and 55 seconds into the mission when the spacecraft exploded.
At first, NASA described the issue as improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment.
AT&Ts 4ESS long-distance switches redirected all calls to 114, which kept happening for 9 hours.
AT&T tried everything to fix the issue and later assumed that it was being hacked.
So, these are the most famous and interesting bugs that the computer science world has witnessed.
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