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Or in some cases might crash 8.5 million computers worldwide.
Yes the Crowdstrike crash was caused by going 1 past an array length, caused by a magic number index and a regex mistake, and wasn't caught because the tests didn't work.
The whole thing was a compound series of amateur mistakes, but with kernel access at boot time.