[extropy-chat] Canadian Trojan Horse Packs a Wallop

[Russell Evermore]

OTTAWA - A new book says a Canadian company was at the centre of an
elaborate Cold War scheme in which a Soviet agent was allowed to steal gas
pipeline software that had been secretly designed to fail on a catastrophic
scale.

The ruse led to a June 1982 explosion in the Siberian wilderness -- "the
most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," ...


http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=23B2DAF2-2CA8-498D-9023-D691A27A9492

    (Apparently Celine Dion has someting similar in store for  "all those
god damned file swappers")
Russell Evermore
nanowave at shaw.ca