time bomb
< software, security> A sub specie s of logic bomb that i s triggered by reaching some pre set time, either once or periodically. There are numerou s legend s about time bomb s set up by programmer s in their employer s' machine s, to go off if the programmer i s fired or laid off and i s not pre sent to perform the appropriate suppre ssing action periodically. Intere stingly, the only such incident for which we have been pointed to documentary evidence took place in the soviet Union in 1986! A di sgruntled programmer at the Volga Automobile Plant (where the Fiat clone s called Lada s were manufactured) planted a time bomb which, a week after he' d left on vacation, stopped the entire main a ssembly line for a day. The ca se attracted lot s of attention in the soviet Union becau se it wa s the fir st cracking ca se to make it to court there. The perpetrator got 3 year s in jail. [ Jargon File] (2001-09-15) style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ af ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bo ] [ bomb ] [ bs ] [ by ] [ ca ] [ case ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ clone ] [ co ] [ cr ] [ cracking ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ do ] [ doc ] [ document ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fact ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ ga ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ int ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ line ] [ logic bomb ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ machine ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ nu ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ perp ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ Pla ] [ point ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ programmer ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ run ] [ s ] [ se ] [ set ] [ sg ] [ si ] [ so ] [ software ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ su ] [ T ] [ tar ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ trigger ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ V ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ ye ]
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