Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion?

Fort Worth Star-Telegram / The New York Times ^ | 2/3/04 | William Safire

[Simon666]

Am I supposed to believe they translated operation manuals and completed testing on test stand and in the field all in under 6 months, and got approval? And the Soviets usually tried to do things with as little resources as possible, they wouldn't change an existing product if it was doing its job. And if it was NOT doing its job, it would probably have exploded anyway and you only gave them the opportunity to reverse engineer it, reaching the exact opposite of bringing the Soviets to a similar technological level.

Considering the pipeline to be above ground: what is the relevance of that? You still don't go building it in the winter as then you risk in the summer the ground will become unstable if thawing sets it.

[shadowman99]

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[snopercod]

The story that was broadcast on PBS was that the trojan horse triggered itself on a certain date.

[Straight Vermonter]

Bump

[Straight Vermonter]

Shortly before the first Gulf War IBM became aware that Iraq was buying computer printers through a third party in Brazil. IBM informed the US government and said they were going to put a stop to it.

The military told IBM to sell them specially modified printers. When our planes flew overhead we knew all of the places where the Iraqi government was operating these printers because they were emitting a radio signal.

Big boom.

[gitmo]

LOL!

Reminds me of something I did with a client I was sure wasn't going to pay me for a system I developed. Nothing physically exploded, but ...

[HungarianGypsy]

FBI works the same way. I remember during a murder investigation the FBI told the media one thing, while telling the family, "here's what's really going on." It was funny to see the media patting itself on the back all along.

[Valin]

I love it!

[SunkenCiv]

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[DavemeisterP]

I’m an archeologist working pipelines at times here in the US, and, from what I’ve seen the pipe gets laid several years in advance of everything else. The Valve stations and other controlling areas get laid last. At least, from what I’ve seen...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Man there is good stuff in the archives.....

Thanks for putting this on today's thread:

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Something is amiss....

49 posted on Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:07:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

50 posted on Tue 15 Apr 2008 12:22:18 PM PDT by DavemeisterP

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[blam]

Yup. DavemeisterP's should be dated the 16th?

Here's a true story:

In the late 70's, the CIA discovered a Soviet sonobuoy that had washed ashore near the Puget Sound in Washington State. The Bangor Naval Submarine Base is located within the Sound and the sonobuoy was apparently used by the Soviets to track the movement of our submarines.

Anyway, I know about this story because the CIA came to TI inquiring about how one of our chips may have found its way into that sonobuoy. We reverse-engineered it and determined that it was a copy but, the CIA wasn't satisfied with that answer because "why would the Soviets include a TI logo on the chip."

We couldn't answer that either but after checking around we found that there had been prior incidents with the Soviets copying our chips and leaving off the logo. After that prior incident, our designers began to incorporate the TI logo as a functional part of the design. The Soviets soon caught onto this and from then on, copied everything exactly, including (the now necessary) logo.

BTW, FYI, there are empty spaces on some chips and the designers often times use this empty space to put graffiti, comments or random pictures. The Japanese designers would often put Samurai warriors while the Texans would put cowboys in the empty spaces.

Chip Art

[blam]

Hmmmm. Silicon Art was more widespread than I realized.

[SunkenCiv]

Amiss? I posted at 10 in the morning, Davemeister at 12:22 in the afternoon, same day?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam, interesting account.

This is disappointing :’)

http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/chipshot.asp

[rabidralph]

Thanks, for letting that cat out of the bag/sarc

[SunkenCiv]

Andy's 'blog -- the way I heard this story, read it actually, it was in (probably) Softalk magazine, and Woz actually did a prank that led to this kooky epiphany by Jobs.

[mad_as_he$$]

In the early 80's I worked for a company that made semiconductor test equipment. We received an order from a company in West Germany for a unit that we did not believe we would ever get permission to sell to them from DRPA and State.

We had already designed into the machine a password capability that locked out the process if the correct password was not typed in - three failures and it locked it out. Required a human service call to reset it.

In any case we received almost immediate permission to ship the unit. As the VP of Customer Support I scheduled a visit to install the machine and train the users. We could NEVER get a good date and at one point I sent an employee to "visit" he found an empty warehouse at the address for the company with one very old "janitor". He got out of the guy that the company had "moved" but not where too. As the years went by I wondered what happened to that machine. About two years after the wall went down I got a call from a Russian company in Moscow. They had the machine and could we come and fix it. It was password locked out and had been for a long time.

Thanks for this story I now believe I know what happened to the missing machine.