Nuclear Safety Vet: A Device With 6,000 Real Data Races Ran Fine for Decades
random_walker · x · 2026-10-30
Security researcher Heidy Khlaaf pushes back on panic over a recent PHP vulnerability: no immediate mass chaos should only surprise those who don't know cybersecurity. Recalling her nuclear industry talks titled "How are we all not dead yet?", she cites a field device that ran flawlessly for decades despite 6,000 confirmed (non-false-positive) data races — evidence that engineering resilience in critical infrastructure runs deeper than raw bug counts suggest.
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