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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by wolf550e on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:56AM (#27729664)
Hardware issues that cause bitflips like that one famous issue[1] with Sun servers in ~2000 (supposedly caused by radioactive isotopes in IBM manufactures SRAM chips) are often called "cosmic rays".

1 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/mcnealy-blames...

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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by gbrown_ on Sunday July 04, 2021 @10:42AM (#27729967)
> are often called "cosmic rays".

No! This exact issue is a classic example because at one point the fault was attributed to cosmic rays by Sun before the true cause came to light. As another commenter has said, terminology matters.

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