(Submitted title was "The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen: Apple's goto fail bug (2014)". Submitters: please don't do that—it's against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." We eventually take submission privileges away for breaking that rule, so please follow it.)
No problem! Thanks for pointing people to the article, I write articles with the hope that someone will read them :-).
That article is part of a series of articles called "Learning from Disaster": https://dwheeler.com/essays/learning-from-disaster.html
I think we can learn from the past, and sometimes learning a story & working to gain lessons learned from it can really help.
(Submitted title was "The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen: Apple's goto fail bug (2014)". Submitters: please don't do that—it's against the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." We eventually take submission privileges away for breaking that rule, so please follow it.)