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I typically ran into the bug when typing at my fastest, or after a long string of mistyped letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
“I mistyped the coordinates to the galaxy I intended to observe, resulting in the telescope pointing to a different part of the sky than intended,” she recounted recently in an email.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Companies often buy up mistyped versions of their real Web addresses to protect against attacks like these, said Allen, whose firm ZeroFox offers to assist companies in finding and buying typo domains on their behalf.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
But not all misread and mistyped words are so spooky.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2021
The immediate cause of the July 1 Crash was a single mistyped character: one tiny typographical flaw in one single line of the software.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
