The most annoying part of bugs like this, is that we rarely get a good post-mortem. To frequently the media just reports it as "a computer glitch". You would think that with computers being so important to modern day life, we should get better answers.

I'm not suggestion that the bug should be explained in details in the evening news, but at least give some indication of the nature of the problem. They could just refer to a website, if people want the technical details.

When a car has a problem, it's not reported as a "glitch". Imagine the stupidity of a media report claiming "A glitch in the latests Ford models cause several drivers to crash". You don't do that, you explain that it's a fault in the steering, breaks, electric systems, or where ever the issue lies. I think we should reasonably expect the same when errors in computer systems hit the news.

Does anyone know if a good resource of detailed postmortems even if really old? I love reading these but they are often way too short on details.