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2.5 Years in Jail for Planting 'Logic Bomb'

cweditor writes "A former Medco Health systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution for planting a logic bomb on a network that held customer health care information. The code was designed to delete almost all information on about 70 company servers. This may be longest federal prison sentence for trying to damage a corporate computer system, although Yung-Hsun Lin faced a maximum of 10 years." How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?

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  1. Do they give Nobel prizes for by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Attempted Physics? I think not!

  2. a logic bomb? by theheadlessrabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    so would everyone in the blast radius of this 'logic bomb' be hit with a blast of reason and common sense?
    would those affected begin acting rationally?
    maybe the courts would wake up and start letting the common people win for a change.
    i think we need more of these logic bombs.

    live long and prosper, logic bomber...

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    -I only code in BASIC.-