On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11 Apr., 11:16, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Just for illustration: Who designs a system, which starts an atomic >>> war on a bitflip in a test message? (Yeah, this happened and we are >>> only alive because of the gut feeling of an operator. >> >> Petrov? > > This was on the russian side. But it also happen in the west. Some > comm relay somewhere in Alaska had a hardware defect which sprinkled > some bit flips into the transported messages every once in a while. > The alarm messages said something like "The russians come with x > rockets." The test message was basically the same with x = 0. Now > imagine a bit flip in the right place. There you go. Some guy at NORAD > had a bad feeling. "These numbers sure look funny. And only from this > single station in Alaska. Hmmmm..."
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