Check out the Wazmo Store link at the top of our pages. The outsiders used a little known Trojan muskrat virus to take hold of the source code for the fabled application Minesweeper. Ouch, that s hurts.
Minesweeper is currently the top software used to train police bomb squad personnel.
It is in use at over 1,000 police academies, and its nationwide popularity has produced over 30,000 amateur bomb hunters. The program is also used by Navy submarine crews to hone their mine detection and avoidance skills. The FBI is looking into reports that the source code may have been sold to terrorists with ties to Osama Bin Ladin. It is believed that they would like to analyze the code in order to develop bomb that are less detectable and therefore harder to find. If terrorists could develop a bomb that couldn t be detected when a player selects a square that is adjacent the bomb, commented the FBI spokesperson, it would spell disaster.