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How about a product that kills people: Therac-25, any other prominent examples of failures? Or destroys the users' financial well-being: software they use to r
by e28eta 12y ago
How about a product that kills people: Therac-25, any other prominent examples of failures?
Or destroys the users' financial well-being: software they use to run their small business, or invest their retirement?
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- Snail_Commando 12y agohttp://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dhahran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha... Whether or not this can be attributed to technical debt, I don't know. But it is an instance of a software failure that resulted in death.