Incident Examples Requests

Commenters repeatedly request links, news stories, specific examples, or evidence of incidents to verify claims about their frequency, existence, or relevance in the discussion.

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phone8675309 May 1, 2024 View on HN

This has slipped my notice as well - can you link to some of the incidents?

elefanten Oct 24, 2021 View on HN

Got any links on such incidents?

dbbk Dec 9, 2024 View on HN

Except there are news stories of this happening to people

JadeNB Jul 2, 2013 View on HN

Can you share any specific incidents? This seems like it would make a very popular HN story.

Ntrails Jun 17, 2013 View on HN

I think this might be slight hyperbole but can you link to some cases/incidents for support?Cheers.

yjftsjthsd-h Feb 21, 2019 View on HN

You can think of 1 high profile incident. But the failure is easy to overlook. Why do you think that there aren't more? (Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen others like this in the news; it's not "one time" caught)

mrjin Jul 15, 2023 View on HN

I was curious why there weren't many incident reports not long ago, here they came.

the_only_law May 17, 2023 View on HN

Perhaps maybe not likely, but there were some big stories about this happening recently, so I wouldn’t be shocked.

engineer_22 Dec 23, 2020 View on HN

Thank you, wasn't aware of many of these incidents. GP has a good point.

jamiequint Nov 11, 2009 View on HN

That would make sense if they actually seemed to care about that in any other situation, but there are many more publicized mishaps that have not been corrected at all. I'm thinking the OP just managed to get lucky here.