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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
logic bomb
    n 1: a set of instructions inserted into a program that are
         designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular
         condition is satisfied; when exploded it may delete or
         corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other
         harmful effects; "a disgruntled employee planted a logic
         bomb" [syn: logic bomb, slag code]

2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
logic bomb
 n.

    Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or OS that causes it to
    perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever
    specified conditions are met. Compare back door.


3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
logic bomb

    Code surreptitiously inserted into an
   application or operating system that causes it to perform
   some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever
   specified conditions are met.

   Compare back door.

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-07-02)


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