A little over a week ago I blogged about the possible connections between the mysterious death of Gus Weiss, a former Reagan era national security advisor, and the INSLAW affair. You'll recall that Weiss was involved in software modification activity for a project designed to infiltrate defective software into the Soviet Union, software that could, via a backdoor, wreak havoc with the Soviet infrastructure, presumably including its national defense capabilities. Imagine, for example, not being able to launch your missiles after you've "pressed the button", because someone has disabled the … [Read more...]