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CIA Created One of History's Worst Software Bugs Email Print

(cross-posted at" Hoot at the Dark)

Wired lists History's Ten Worst Software Bugs.

The Top 10 list includes bugs both intentional ('Morris Worm' and the dreaded 'Ping of Death') as well as the unintentional (rocketry software, medical radiation devices, operating systems, phone switches, computer chips).  

Of all the bugs that make the list, however, the CIA should probably be credited with the all-time worst:

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