美國62歲程序員David Tinley因在雇主軟件里植入邏輯炸彈而被判刑十年,罰款25萬美元。Tinley是西門子美國分布的合同工,為公司提供管理電子設(shè)備訂單的自動(dòng)化電子表格程序。但是,他在軟件中植入了邏輯炸彈,從而使得該軟件每過數(shù)年會(huì)產(chǎn)生問題。一旦發(fā)生問題,西門子公司則不得不花錢讓Tinley去修復(fù)這些問題。而Tinley的行為在一次緊急訂單的處理中被發(fā)現(xiàn):因當(dāng)時(shí)的情況,西門子公司有權(quán)向Tinley獲得了他的電腦密碼,從而發(fā)現(xiàn)了程序中的邏輯炸彈。
A contract programmer has pleaded guilty to planting a 'logic bomb' in spreadsheets he put together for Siemens in the US
A contractor has pleaded guilty to planting a "logic bomb" in a client's software in a bid to receive extra work from the company every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old contract programmer from...