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Contract programmer faces 10 years for inserting 'logic bomb' to keep getting rehired

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    Contract programmer faces 10 years for inserting 'logic bomb' to keep getting rehired

    This gives me some ideas to get through the weak market

    Contract programmer faces jail after planting 'logic bomb' - Business Insider

    In this case, the logic bombs were timed to go off every few years, the government alleged, causing the spreadsheet to experience glitches like error messages and size changes to on-screen buttons, according to a report from Law360.

    When the program glitched, the company would bring Tinley back in to fix it. He fixed the system by pushing back the date the spreadsheets would stop working again, the government said.
    He was busted in 2016 when he was away on vacation and Siemens had to put an urgent order through the system, which had begun glitching, according to the Law360 report. The circumstance reportedly forced Tinley to share with employees his passwords that protected the system's code — revealing the logic bomb.
    NCOTBAC

    Any self respecting contractor would have billed them for a first class flight home to fix it + emergency call out fee

    #2
    Originally posted by FIERCE TANK BATTLE View Post
    This gives me some ideas to get through the weak market

    Contract programmer faces jail after planting 'logic bomb' - Business Insider





    NCOTBAC

    Any self respecting contractor would have billed them for a first class flight home to fix it + emergency call out fee
    nah, secondary password, which runs a script to remove the code when used.
    then he wouldn't have had his collar felt.

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      #3
      I'm sure SJD had a logic bomb in my spreadsheet. I'd do my years accounting and next morning when I opened it there was nothing but a jumble of meaningless numbers that made no sense to me.
      Last edited by northernladuk; 24 July 2019, 21:01.
      'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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        #4
        oh, - what's a spreadsheet??
        is that another Powerpoint Monkey thing?

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          #5
          Do you think it's this?

          https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-tinley-70222b31/

          Home

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            #6
            Nice article linked in that one. Programmer automates his job - Business Insider How to automate your job.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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