A potentially dangerous bug has been found in 20-year-old software so effective that it had been appropriated for use in Android phones, cars, aircraft and the Mars Curiosity rover.
Markus Oberhumer created the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) data compression algorithm in 1994 and it proved so quick at decompressing information that it saw application around the world. This was helped in no small part due to Oberhumer’s decision to release it under an open source licence .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk
