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Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion
An anonymous reader writes "William Safire of the nytimes [nytimes.com] has an interesting column this week describing how the Soviets purchased bogus computer chips from the West in the 1970's. These chips caused what "was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space." Fascinating story."
Well why is Windows 95 or 98 so crash prone?
Why is Windows 2000 and XP and future versions still virus enabled?
Is this an Accident? Is Billy Gates so silly?
I don't see the connection between 'preventing a nuclear holocaust, at all costs...' and committing the sabotage against their pipeline system. At the time of the incident, the USSR had the ability to launch a massive nuclear attack at us, that we could not have stopped, and that would have devastated the United States and killed a large portion of the population. Of course, we could have retaliated in kind and the devastation would have been mutual. Causing the massive explosion in their pipeline system, though, did not damage their nuclear capability but it could have pissed them off and made a nuclear attack slightly more likely, if they had been led by unstable and unreasonable personalities. Fortunately for us, they were not as fanatical as Osama Bin Laden or we would not be here today. The mere existence of their military weapons did not give us any moral right to sabotage their pipeline anymore than did the existence of our military weapons give them any moral right to sabotage our pipelines. That was true then and it is still true today.