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		e28eta on Dec 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged ca... 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?

Snail_Commando on Dec 20, 2014 | [–]

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm

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.

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