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'Fallout 76' bug disabled nukes on New Year's Day
New Years came and went quietly in the apocalyptic world of Fallout 76, but it wasn't on purpose. A bug in the multiplayer survival game caused nuclear codes to be unusable. While the sudden inability to launch weapons was originally thought to be related to the holidays, Fallout 76 developer...
Some people were convinced zero-day bugs like Y2K would cause nuclear launches. Fallout '76 shows that this isn't always the case.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Y2K19:
Some people were convinced zero-day bugs like Y2K would cause nuclear launches. Fallout '76 shows that this isn't always the case.
It's not a bug, it's a bugfix!
Fallout 76 Players Crash Server by Launching 3 Nukes at Once
Fallout 76 Players Crash Server by Launching 3 Nukes at Once
One of the first instances of a true Fallout 76 server crash has occurred after players launched three nukes at the same time in one world.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Y2K19:
Y2K would cause nuclear launches
I don't know what kinds of WTF coding there is in the nuclear weapons control software, but I like to think they at least don't write
On Error Goto Explodeafter every calculation.
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@anonymous234 The idea was that the computers would think it was 1900 and launch nukes at Prussia and the Ottoman Empire
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@anonymous234 I figure the only correct way to trigger an nuclear warhead is to do so from signal handler that runs on a null-dereference, and then dereference a null pointer when it's time to go.
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@anonymous234 The idea was that the computers would think it was 1900 and launch nukes at Prussia and the Ottoman Empire
Well, if you think about it, the mass defect actually is similar to the off-by-one bug.
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@anonymous234 I figure the only correct way to trigger an nuclear warhead is to do so from signal handler that runs on a null-dereference, and then dereference a null pointer when it's time to go.
That's taking "undefined behavior" a little bit too far, don't you think?
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@anonymous234 I figure the only correct way to trigger an nuclear warhead is to do so from signal handler that runs on a null-dereference, and then dereference a null pointer when it's time to go.
That's taking "undefined behavior" a little bit too far, don't you think?
Makes nasal demons sounds outright pleasant.
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@anonymous234 said in Y2K19:
@The_Quiet_One said in Y2K19:
Y2K would cause nuclear launches
I don't know what kinds of WTF coding there is in the nuclear weapons control software, but I like to think they at least don't write
On Error Goto Explodeafter every calculation.I heard stories of missile control software having horrible memory leaks that were solved by adding enough RAM so that the eventual OOM happens beyond operational range.
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On the original topic. I love how this happened exactly at the halfway point between Y2K and Y2K38.
