A farmer near Ashburton, New Zealand found one of the fragments - a titanium ball - on his farm in 1972. No one knew what it was, they thought it might be dangerous or even radioactive. Not knowing what to do, the local Police took it away and locked it up in their Police cell.

The New Zealand Government tried to give it back to Russia, but they denied it was theirs. Eventually, the mysterious ball that no one wanted, was given to a local museum, where it still resides.

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Did all my browsing with no pictures because my ISP charged by the byte downloaded. All the ISP's in my country did this. It wasn't a very rich experience, but every byte downloaded cost money.
In any case the dial-up modem I had was so slow that pictures would have taken all day. I don't remember what it was, but I remember upgrading to a 14.4k modem later. Fast!
I used the Mosaic Browser which could only download one picture at-a-time, but one day splashed out and got this new browser - Netscape - forerunner of Firefox. The 2 Mb download took all evening and crashed a few times before I got it. Never looked back.

Well, having been an open source developer for almost the 10 years, I know a bit about this. Firstly you need to code as securely as you can. Do the research, make sure you know whats going, and audit your own code thoroughly.

Don't believe no one else is looking, because they are. I've had one person ask me a few innocent questions about my code, then email a back a week later to say I'd passed their security audit just fine. I've also been unlucky enough - just once - to have the full disclosure email about a security vulnerability. And yes, that feels bad.

Do your very best; don't worry, and enjoy being part of the open source community.