Notes:

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Amerithrax-Anthrax-Killer-Robert-Gray... . Amerithrax was the name of the FBI investigation. https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/amerithrax-o...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_atta...

> In 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, due to the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with Salmonella. A group of prominent followers of Rajneesh (also known as Osho) led by Ma Anand Sheela had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the 1984 Wasco County elections.[2] The incident was the first and largest bioterrorist attack in U.S. history.

Tried to take over a town by making all the voters too sick to vote on election day. This event is why all buffets & salad bars in the US now have sneeze shields.

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo_and_weapons_of_m...

> Aum Shinrikyo operated the most extensive biological weapons program by a non-state actor ever discovered. Aum considered a range of agents, but only seriously attempted to obtain and disperse Bacillus anthracis and botulinum toxin, the causative agents of anthrax and botulism. With the 2001 anthrax attacks, it comprises the only attempts to use anthrax as a weapon not attributed to a state program.

Tried multiple times to weaponize anthrax and failed. This was a group that made an automated factory to build AK-47s. Eventually, they spread sarin nerve agent in the Tokyo subway.

It was an awesome thing that generated IL code on the fly. And I got to mention it in job interviews for years. When the tech lead asked "can you write 2 functions with the same signature, that only differ in return type in .NET?" I would say "do you want the interview answer or do you really want to do this?" which would pretty much stun the interviewer. The answer is pretty much "no, you cannot do it in any high level language, but if you write IL code, you can, and here's an open source project that demonstrates it".

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

A previous job of mine was software developer for a state motor vehicle agency. I had to read far too many state & federal laws/regulations to make the boat/vehicle registration system compliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R

> Kill switch, as always with APT28 malware, is setting the host language to ru_RU.KOI8-R (LANG environment variable). That disables the spread mechanism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460507

Note: KOI8-U is Ukrainian and would still trigger the worm/trojan/malware.

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/st...

I think he's wrong that DRM violates the 4th Amendment, I contend that it is - first and foremost - a violation of the 3rd Amendment.

The linked story includes some details on how this sort of attack works when a developer opens an infected project. This could be very important if you use a lot of open source projects in your project.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Or, as is more common in large enterprise licensing schemes - the vendor changes the terms and the customer never notices. And the .gov side of Microsoft licensing changes as often and as inscrutably as the commercial side of Microsoft licensing.

We've had more than a few discussions where conference calls with Microsoft end with the "oh, that used to be part of your license, but now it isn't" with the only solution being to bend over and open up the agency's wallet.

0 - 32 bit windows will always have this problem.

1 - This is because File Explorer uses a hodgepodge of Win32 and Win64 stuff behind the scenes when running 64 bit windows.