The Therac-25 is part of the core curriculum in computer engineering, but I wonder if it's actually (in the grand scheme of things) hat bad of an incident. Compared with Facebook fomenting ethnic cleansing in Asia, the people who were hurt or died were very limited. Are there any new(er) examples which can show the dangers of a widely distributed, connected horror?
I'm not familiar with the Facebook incident you are referring to, but it doesn't sound like something caused by a bug? The article is about bugs; i.e. unintentional tragedies. If what you're referring to is not the result of a bug then it's off-topic (though perhaps not unimportant).
