Subject Re: [IB-Architect] The Borland Back Door
Author Ivan Prenosil
> From: Jim Starkey
> Unfortunately, the back door wasn't the only problem that came to
> light. According to comments in the code, in 1994 Borland's
> QA department demanded that a "unpublished" build in function
> be implemented to delete the database file while the server
> was running.

Unfortunately even without this "secret" function it is still easy
to severely damage/destroy any database, e.g. try
DELETE FROM rdb$pages;

Ivan
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