Interesting chain of events
A forum post by user ferlatte describing how a Second Life updater downloaded a 404 page, which Windows executed as 16-bit COM code, opening the LPT printer device and writing garbage that made cheap inkjet printers spew paper and even break.
Good for
- sharing an absurd bug story in a dev chat
- citing when discussing legacy system pitfalls
- illustrating a tech incident postmortem
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