Topic: TSA Worker Gets 2 Years for Planting Logic Bomb in Screening System

[sam]

A former TSA worker convicted of planting a logic bomb on a system used to screen airline passengers was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay about $60,000 in restitution to the TSA.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/JP9o0c7fhbk/

[Clive]

I remember logic bombs being hurled around in Yahoo chat many years ago.  Most of them would just cause a re-boot but I was led to believe that some could actually cause damage to a computer.  I have to say that I had strong doubts about that but my sources seemed reliable enough.   

[sam]

I have doubts about permanent damage too.

[sam]

though I guess a hard restart always has the chance of messing up the state of the hard drive.

[sam]

but in general they could be malicious just I doubt the ones on yahoo chat. All the logic bomb does is set off a trigger to run some code.

[Clive]

I suffered from logic bomb reboots which would take down the entire chat room but I never suffered any damage.

[sam]

oh just chat reboot, pah!