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Re:Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb i... by lolc on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:28AM (#20514058)
The article says that the spreadsheets were protected by a password that the contractor did not initially hand over. So yes, that was a oversight of Siemens.
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Re:Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb i... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:20AM (#20515535)
"Protected" office documents are the rough equivalent of putting up a 'Do Not Enter' sign and are just as trivial to bypass. If anyone had really cared enough to want to see the code, they could have.
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