Every software engineer should be aware of the RISKS digest (aka USENET&#x27;s comp.risks).<p>The mailing list and digest just celebrated it&#x27;s 30th birthday in August.  There&#x27;s an incredible wealth of history here regarding bugs, related issues, and the overall risks of our dependency on computers in society.<p>RISKS broke most of the major stories of the day including the Morris Worm, the AT&amp;T Long Distance collapse, the Mars Climate Orbiter unit error, the Mars Pathfinder priority lockup, the Therac-25, the first email spam, the Pentium FDIV bug, and thousands of other interesting, amusing, and&#x2F;or scary bugs.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catless.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;Risks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;catless.ncl.ac.uk&#x2F;Risks&#x2F;</a>