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There are technology issues, and then there are TECHNOLOGY ISSUES. Peter Coffee looks back at almost 25 years of IT screwups, and provides some lessons that can be learned from them.

Peter Coffees Dirty Dozen IT Embarrassments - 1996: Kerberos random number generator finally gets random
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Security systems are chains with many links--one weak link is too many.

A cryptosystem with a weak random number generator can not be any stronger than that fl






 
 
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  1. Peter Coffees Dirty Dozen IT Embarrassments
  2. 1982: Trans-Siberian Pipeline explosion proves how hard hackers can hit
  3. 1988: USS Vincennes shoots down civilian airliner
  4. 1990: AT
  5. 1994: Pentium FDIV bug makes floating-point division a mainstream joke
  6. 1995: Syncronys SoftRAM makes people see what they want to see
  7. 1996: Kerberos random number generator finally gets random
  8. 1998: USS Yorktown is disabled by software failures
  9. 1999: Mars Climate Orbiter crashes on metric/English mismatch
  10. 1999: Melissa Worm teaches crucial lessons -- or does it?
  11. 2005: FBI Virtual Case File project is abandoned
  12. 2005: ChoicePoint admits to unwise data disclosures
  13. 2005: Sony rootkit idiocy makes DRM nightmare real
  

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