My first job out of school was at a company that was (at the time) famous for electronic test equipment. We found that our competitor's probes, developed in a r

My first job out of school was at a company that was (at the time) famous for electronic test equipment. We found that our competitor's probes, developed in a relatively humid area, would trigger when an engineer so much as flicked a lighter in the same cubicle in our much drier climate.