This reminded me of a story I heard many years ago at Microsoft about a memory-corruption bug that flipped two bits and turned the text "WINDOWS" into "SINDOGS"

This reminded me of a story I heard many years ago at Microsoft about a memory-corruption bug that flipped two bits and turned the text "WINDOWS" into "SINDOGS". This caused a few customers to freak out that Windows was some sort of Satanist operating system. (I figured I should do a quick Google before posting to see if this is an urban legend. It turns out to be true. The Windows line-drawing code drew pixels beyond the bitmap into memory, corrupting Excel's string: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/01/06/sinofsky-sindogs https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/01/06/sinofsky-sindog...)