Bit rot

[Whaaat]

Related to bitrot this does not even include problems outside a disk like cabling or connectors that cannot be fixed with disk ECC

Usually this is successfully fixed with T10-PI format in SAN when data safeguarding matters

 

[Stephan]

Let's talk about our God and Saviour ECC-RAM for a moment.

Want to start a criminal enterprise? Download a list of the Top 100 website domains. Introduce one random bit flip in the domain's word. Register the domain if the word is still in the accepted character set of the registry. You'll get 1000s of hits per day. I'll leave it up to you what the unsuspecting user or machine gets to see from your site. Let's Encrypt might even give you a free SSL-certificate for it. At least for a while, until they catch on.

Not your thing? How about catching a bunch of enterprising criminals? Minor tweak only: Check who already registered the domains...

 

[oneplane]

Let's talk about our God and Saviour ECC-RAM for a moment.

Want to start a criminal enterprise? Download a list of the Top 100 website domains. Introduce one random bit flip in the domain's word. Register the domain if the word is still in the accepted character set of the registry. You'll get 1000s of hits per day. I'll leave it up to you what the unsuspecting user or machine gets to see from your site. Let's Encrypt might even give you a free SSL-certificate for it. At least for a while, until they catch on.

Not your thing? How about catching a bunch of enterprising criminals? Minor tweak only: Check who already registered the domains...

We actually did this at a few customer sites where they wanted alternate spellings of their public facing domains, it's really surprising how much traffic you'll get, especially from domains that are unlikely to be mis-typed by hand (so: bit flips with a single character transposed). On a 100k RPS site you'll see between 0.1% and 0.5% clearly being technical failure rather than human error/mis-typing. Wild.