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[schoen]

This is probably the most famous issue about that phenomenon:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht...

You could say that our understanding of PRNGs has improved a bit since then.

A recent thread about brute-forcing PRNG states in a game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880528

[rincebrain → schoen]

I would have thought https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh would be the most famous issue in many people's memories of poor (read: absent) PRNG use. ;)