Siemens contractor hid “logic bomb” in complicated spreadsheet, guaranteeing future maintenance work

David Tinley developed complex spreadsheets under contract to Siemens, which used them to manage its equipment orders; Tinley hid “logic bombs” in the spreadsheets’ scripts that caused them to malfunction every couple of years, which would gin up new work for him as he was called in to fix them.
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