The backdoor—a surreptitious entry point into the software—would have allowed a person with the requisite code and issue commands as an administrator. Had the backdoor been widely distributed, it would have been a potential disaster for millions of people. Luckily, before the malicious update could be pushed out into wider circulation, a software engineer from Microsoft noticed irregularities in the code and reported it. The project was subsequently commandeered by responsible parties and has
