time bomb
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time bomb (plural time bombs)
- A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
- (computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time.
- 1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
- Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.
- (figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.
- 2014 June 6, Françoise Fressoz, “France’s Ticking Time Bomb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.
- 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
- Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
- 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
- The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.
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Translations
bomb with a timeout mechanism
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computing: program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time
situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time
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