The original Internet of Shit: giving someone a dose of fatal radiation because of a race condition in your code hackaday.com/2015/10/26/kill…

Feb 15, 2017 · 1:22 PM UTC

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no! Where should I look?
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oh my goodness this is my new heaven
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thanks for my new rabbit hole...
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Replying to @XcskiPaul
please forgive me for i have sinned
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Not network connected, though. However, remember "slammer" ?
.@jquinby @internetofshit RISKS is such a big deal that there was even a hardcover book of it, back in the day: books.google.ca/books?id=8d-…
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I used to print RISKS Digest out in booklet form to read on the bus. Like a grown up & crankier version of 2600.
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here's the actual paper: sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/ther…
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additionally, (assembly!) code was REUSED, therac-25 had no hardware locks, MALFUNCTION-54 displayed, not "PATIENT WILL FRY"
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We studied this at uni. Was interesting comparing the Comp Sci students reactions to the Engineers.
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