Black Swan Events in Open Source: That time...
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Chronicle of three concrete failures: the Morris worm infects ~10% of the Internet in 1988 and forces a security pivot; Heartbleed in OpenSSL exposes 66% of websites and reveals single-maintainer risk; the npm dispute unpublishing causes cascading failures until npm restores the package; and the response built is an archive and toolkit, opensourcestories.org oral-history archive, collecting evidence, transcripts and volunteer workflows to document what actually broke and why.
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