By Paul Duckin, Naked Security, April 19, 2016
Over the past week or so, an intriguing story has appeared around and about the web.
It falls short of a meme, but sits higher than a rumour, and it’s attracted attention because it deals with an increasingly-endangered event: a BSoD.
BSoD, of course, stands for Blue Screen of Death, which is what Windows does when the whole operating system crashes to the point that there’s no purposeful, or even possible, way to recover.
In the Linux kernel, it’s called a Panic; on the Amiga it was a Guru Meditation; Novell’s NetWare (remember that?) would abnormally end, or ABEND for short.