Logic bomb

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logic bomb

Usage: n.

See Also: back door

logic bomb: n.

Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or OS that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare back door.

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Source: logic bomb, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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