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IE, a quickly applied patch that failed.


No, just a latent bug that got exposed by a coincidental condition which happened to be synchronized via time.

Doesn’t require and patching at all. These things lurk for years or decades before finally meeting the conditions needed to be exposed. Many times one-off failures that underwrote the issue are written off as hardware failure or whatnot and not actually diagnosed until something like this happens.




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