Fictional Logic Bombs
- In "Moffett's Ghost," an episode of the Airwolf television series, Hawk loses control of the onboard computer, which was programmed on a timer by Airwolf's creator, Doctor Charles Henry Moffett... once activated, Airwolf is set to destroy any aircraft in its range.
- In Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park, computer technician Dennis Nedry inserted an object into the mainframe coding for the park that would shut off the entire island's power (including the supply to the electric fences) in order to steal several dinosaur embryos in the chaos. The logic bomb object was named "White Rabbit."
- The Tom Clancy book Debt of Honor features a logic bomb installed in the code of various stock market computers.
- Hugh Jackman's character in Swordfish, Stanley Jobson, claims to have "dropped a logic bomb through the trapdoor" while hacking into a Department of Defense network.
- In the episode "Scattered" of the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons leave a logic bomb in the ship's computers after briefly gaining access to them. It later causes a series of nearly catastrophic system malfunctions.
- In the CIA level of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, a PC and console videogame, a conversation can be heard with a reference to a logic bomb.
- In the PC strategy game Empire Earth, the Japanese special unit, the Cyber Ninja, has an attack called "Logic Bomb". This bears little resemblance to a real logic bomb, instead simply disabling an enemy building for a brief period.
- In Season 3 of 24, Nina Myers manipulates Jack Bauer to unknowingly activate a virus in the CTU computer systems. It is activated by a phone call to a certain number.
- In Series 6, Episode 8 of Spooks the Yalta organization sets off a logic bomb planted within the American defense network to shutdown all US controlled satellites. It is activated by the entry of a code into a game which causes the logic bomb to copy a virus to all the satellites and shut them down.
- In Series 6, Episode 2 of NCIS Abby and McGee have a conversation about logic that gives them the idea of using a logic bomb to hack into computers on a US Naval Carrier to access certain files. No details of the bomb itself are seen on screen or discussed at all.
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