No, no. Not the kind that makes a ticking noise.
Every time I read one of these stories I’m stunned by the brain dead aspect of the perp. In this case the convicted party is one, Yung-Hsun Lin.
They are usually armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. The malice of forethought and the absence of prognostication. By which I mean, they are just like any garden variety criminal. They plan the crime but, never take into account the “escape”. Lin, as with others such as Roger Duriono (who got 8 years) weren’t smart enough to see beyond their own petty complaints. The difference being in this case that Lin could have negatively affected the health care of some of the patients.
“This case is unique in that it touches on the public health system,” said assistant US attorney Erez Liebermann, who prosecuted the case.
The logic bomb, designed to delete “virtually all of the information” on Medco’s servers, was written by Lin and planted in multiple scripts on the company network, according to court documents.
The malicious code was initially set up to be triggered on April 23, 2004, but it failed because of a coding error. Lin reset it to deploy a year later, but a co-worker discovered and disabled the bomb, Liebermann said.
This type of criminal activity demonstrates that some folks are sharp as a bag of marbles. Ah, Darwin.
[tags]Logic Bomb, Medco Logic Bomb, Yung-Hsun Lin, Medco[/tags]
