Therac-25 Radiation Machine Failure - The Eight-Second Window

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Therac-25 Radiation Machine Failure - The Eight-Second Window

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Alexandra Reeves explores the Therac-25 radiation therapy disasters, where software bugs—including a race condition triggered by fast typing and a counter overflow—caused catastrophic overdoses that killed cancer patients. She dissects how removing hardware safety interlocks and relying solely on unaudited code turned a medical device into a lethal weapon.

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