Well you can kill with bad programming and you can kill a lot, think of hospitals intranets, telecom networks/electric grid
Or concurrent access to an 8-bit counter that caused massive radiation doses to people...
Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury.
> Well you can kill with bad programming and you can kill a lot, think of hospitals intranets, telecom networks/electric grid
Or concurrent access to an 8-bit counter that caused massive radiation doses to people...
[Therac-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)
> Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury.
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