What is the worst software bug in history? [closed]
- by Amir Rezaei
By having for example money and human suffering as the metric.
What is the worst software bug in history?
Note this is a specific question.
Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars' gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of years past, the root of the Prius issue wasn't a hardware problem -- it was a programming error in the smart car's embedded code. The Prius had a software bug.