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While the Reagan Administration has been struggling for more than three years to deny advanced computer technology to the Soviet Union, two French authors are now suggesting fancifully how the U.S. might turn the Soviet appetite for Western computers to its own advantage. Softwar, a high-tech thriller by Thierry Breton, a Parisian computer programmer, and Denis Beneich, a New York City-based freelance writer, explores what could happen if Washington, instead of blocking high-technology sales, used them for infiltration and sabotage. With nearly 100,000 copies in print, Softwar has become a bestseller in France. The book...
...Softwar's authors play skillfully with state-of-the-art technology and the intricacies of computer software. In fact, there is no technical barrier to planting soft-bombs of the type the novel describes. "Not only is it thoroughly possible," says Charles Lecht, chairman of Lecht Sciences Inc., a New York City software company, "but I know of several instances where it has been done." Some U.S. software houses routinely encode secret time-delay functions in the logic of their largest commercial programs before sending them to prospective clients for preview. For example, such a program might...
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