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Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-a-reign dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Spain's FBI equivalent has arrested the management of a software company (Google translation; Spanish original) for selling custom software to small and medium-sized businesses with 'controlled errors' that resulted in the software bombing on a predetermined date. They would then charge for fixing the problem and press the client into buying a maintenance contract. More than 1,000 clients were affected."

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  1. I know a couple of guys like that by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And i made some decent money undoing their damage. Donno why the customer never bothered to press charges.

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  2. Sad comment about Software Engineering... by stoicfaux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's pretty sad when it's easier to intentionally put bugs into software than it is to keep them out. What's worse is that no one is quite sure which is the better business model...