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Why Smart Contracts Fail: Undiscovered bugs and what we can do about them – Medium

Turns out that if you build a digital cash system where people can write code to specify behaviour, then that code has bugs in it. Who'd have thought it?

to blockchain bugs ethereum security static-analysis ... on 28 August 2016

David A. Wheeler's Personal Home Page

Includes several well-written, comprehensive postmortems on noteworthy security bugs (e.g. Heartbleed) -- probably of interest to security students.

to bugs security software ssl ... on 05 March 2015

DONHODGES.COM - PAC MAN'S SPLIT SCREEN LEVEL ANALYZED AND FIXED

Fixing a bug in Pac-Man -- but mostly interesting for a detailed explanation of how the display works, and why exactly it looks like that when it crashes.

to ag0700 bugs debugging games pacman ... on 11 July 2013

mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2013-06-28: Anatomy of a Compiler Bug

Excellent description of how to track down a Clang code generation bug.

to bugs clang debugging llvm ... on 11 July 2013

Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat’s buggy PRNG | Naked Security

Another example of why writing your own crypto code probably isn't a good idea.

to bugs cryptography programming ... on 11 July 2013

Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug - minimaxir | Max Woolf's Internet Blog Thingy

Or: why not to store money values -- even fake ones -- in integers.

to ag0700 bugs integer overflow ... on 10 May 2013

The Infocom Bugs List

Watch what you're doing with your hands. No, seriously; it's possible to lose them in several Infocom games...

to amusements bugs games if ... on 01 February 2013

Roundup Issue Tracker

Probably worth looking at for rawdog et al.

to bugs issue-tracking software ... on 21 January 2009

What Happened on Mars?

Priority inversion problems on Pathfinder.

to bugs concurrency research ... on 26 December 2005

Bug 167801 - Unhinted rendering regression: incorrect character widths

to bugs ... on 18 February 2005