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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
time bomb
n 1: a problematic situation that will eventually become
dangerous if not addressed; "India is a demographic time
bomb"; "the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go
off" [syn: time bomb, ticking bomb]
2: a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go
off at a particular time [syn: time bomb, infernal
machine]
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2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
time bomb
n.
A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset
time, either once or periodically. There are numerous legends about time
bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the
programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the
appropriate suppressing action periodically.
Interestingly, the only such incident for which we have been pointed to
documentary evidence took place in the Soviet Union in 1986! A disgruntled
programmer at the Volga Automobile Plant (where the Fiat clones called
Ladas were manufactured) planted a time bomb which, a week after he'd left
on vacation, stopped the entire main assembly line for a day. The case
attracted lots of attention in the Soviet Union because it was the first
cracking case to make it to court there. The perpetrator got a suspended
sentence of 3 years in jail and was barred from future work as a
programmer.
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
time bomb
A subspecies of logic bomb that is
triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or
periodically. There are numerous legends about time bombs set
up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if
the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to
perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically.
Interestingly, the only such incident for which we have been
pointed to documentary evidence took place in the Soviet Union
in 1986! A disgruntled programmer at the Volga Automobile
Plant (where the Fiat clones called Ladas were manufactured)
planted a time bomb which, a week after he'd left on vacation,
stopped the entire main assembly line for a day. The case
attracted lots of attention in the Soviet Union because it was
the first cracking case to make it to court there. The
perpetrator got 3 years in jail.
[Jargon File]
(2001-09-15)
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