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The Tin-Whisker Menace

Posted by timothy on from the crisis-of-the-moment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has an article about how the recent environmental push to completely eliminate lead from electronic components and wiring may eventually lead to the next Y2K problem of slowly-growing tin whiskers short-circuiting equipment.""

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  1. Dupe by prestwich · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The related problems were already covered a few months ago on Slashdot:

    http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/07/02/2348245.shtml ?t id=137