Excellent post!
Well it's just like this stuff has happened at my work. It's been reported at my work that contract programmers or consultants sometimes insert logic bombs as insurance that they'll be paid for their work. A programmer spends three months building your invoicing system and trying it to your inventory database. You get angry because the programmer promised to have the work done in two months. You figure the delay has cost you $5,000, so you deduct that from the programmers final paycheck. The programmer takes the check but gives you a strange, dead-eye look.
Things go well for a couple of weeks, and nobody notices the phone call to the company server at 3:00am on Wednesday. Instructions are sent into the server over the phone, and the logic bomb is activated. The next day, your entire inventory and invoicing database is history -entirely wiped clean. Perhaps even worse, thousands of e-mails have been sent to your customer list, informing each of them in highly obscene language that they are the worst, most@@@##$#@ annoying customers this company has ever had the bad luck to deal with. You really should have paid that programmer
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