Date: 27 Jan 92 18:48:35 EST
From: Gordon Meyer <[email protected]>
Subject: File 3--Fine for "Logic Bomber"

"Logic Bomb Programmer Fined"
(Reprinted with permission from STReport 8.04  Jan 24, 1992)

Michael John Lauffenburger, a 31-year-old programmer formerly with
General Dynamics, pleaded guilty Nov. 4 to attempted computer
tampering.  He has been fined $5,000, handed three years' probation
and was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service for
attempting to sabotage computers with a "logic bomb" that prosecutors
say could have erased national security data.

According to reports, Lauffenburger set up the logic bomb, then
resigned, intending to get hired on as high-priced consultant to help
reconstruct the data lost from the billion-dollar Atlas Missile Space
Program when the virus was unleashed.  A co-worker accidentally
discovered the rogue program in early May. It had been set to go off
May 24. Investigators said at the time the bomb would have caused
about $100,000 in damage to computer systems at the Kearny Mesa
plant.

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