Basically you can register domains using small bit differences for domains and start getting email and such for that domain
If I recall correctly the example given was a variation of microsoft.com
All because so much equipment doesn't use ECC
Basically you can register domains using small bit differences for domains and start getting email and such for that domain
If I recall correctly the example given was a variation of microsoft.com
All because so much equipment doesn't use ECC
At Google even with ECC everywhere there wasn't enough systematic error detection and correction to prevent the global database of monitoring metrics from filling up with garbage. /rpc/server/count was supposed to exist but also in there would be /lpc/server/count and /rpc/sdrver/count and every other thing. Reminded me daily of the terrors of flipped bits.
As long as we're swapping war stories there was once a frontend server at that company which died of bit flip related causes but just before it did it managed to charge some product group for 2^63 bytes worth of network traffic in the internal quota system, which set off every budgetary alarm that capacity planners had.