Salami slicing

Salami slicing is a alternation of abounding accessory actions, generally performed by artful means, that calm after-effects in a beyond activity that would be difficult or actionable to accomplish at once. The appellation is about acclimated pejoratively.

An archetype of bologna slicing, additionally accepted as penny shaving, is the counterfeit convenance of burglary money again in acutely baby quantities, usually by demography advantage of rounding to the abutting cent (or added budgetary unit) in banking transactions. It would be done by consistently rounding down, and putting the fractions of a cent into addition account. The abstraction is to accomplish the change baby abundant that any distinct transaction will go undetected.[1][2]

In advice security, a bologna advance is a alternation of accessory attacks that calm after-effects in a beyond attack. Computers are alluringly ill-fitted to automating this blazon of attack.

In politics, the appellation bologna approach has been acclimated back the 1940s to accredit to a bisect and beat action of threats and alliances acclimated to affected opposition.

In academia, bologna slicing refers to the convenance of creating several publications out of actual that could accept been appear in a distinct account or review. (See additionally atomic publishable unit).

Salami slicing attacks

In January 1993, four admiral of a rental-car authorization in Florida were answerable with ambidexterity at atomic 47,000 barter application a bologna technique.3

In Los Angeles, in October 1998, commune attorneys answerable four men with artifice for allegedly installing computer chips in gasoline pumps that cheated consumers by overstating the amounts pumped.3

In 2008, a man was arrested for fraudulently creating 58,000 accounts which he acclimated to aggregate money through analysis deposits from online allowance firms a few cents at a time.4 While aperture the accounts and application the funds may not accept been actionable by themselves, the authorities answerable that the alone opened the accounts application apocryphal names (including those of animation characters), addresses, and amusing aegis numbers, appropriately actionable the laws adjoin mail fraud, wire fraud, and coffer fraud.

Historically, absolute concrete "penny shaving" may be advised a anatomy of bologna slicing. The edges of bill fabricated of adored metals accept been abrupt or baldheaded by individuals in adjustment to annex baby quantities of said metals at a time with the ambition that the bread would still absorb its nominal value.

In fiction

Film and television

Salami slicing has played a key role in the plots of several films. The earliest mention of this practice was in the UK TV series The Sweeney, a 1976 episode called "Tomorrow Man", of a man rounding up percentage points and putting the difference in his own account (totaling two million dollars), using a computer. Other films include Superman III, Hackers, Entrapment, Web of Lies, The Shawshank Redemption, and Office Space (one of whose characters mentions the scheme's earlier use in Superman III). In Office Space, Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton, and Samir Nagheenanajar decide to divert the supposedly "rounded-off" portions of banking interest deposits after Michael and Samir learn that they will be laid off. However, they end up taking much more than the fractions of a cent because of a misplaced decimal point.

In a 1972 episode of the TV series M*A*S*H, Radar attempts to ship an entire Jeep home from Korea one piece at a time. Hawkeye commented that his mailman "would have a retroactive hernia" if he found out.[5]

In the anime series Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG, terrorist Hideo Kuze uses salami slicing in order to finance his actions, eventually stealing enough money to buy plutonium from a Russian smuggler.
Music

The term is referred to, but not used by name, in the country song "The Ballad of Silicon Slim" by John Forster. A non-digital variant of the practice is described in the 1976 Johnny Cash song, "One Piece at a Time", in which the protagonist, an automobile factory worker, steals individual parts to build a complete car over a period of decades.
Literature

An example of salami slicing also appears in a volume of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series. The revolutionaries in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress use the technique to fund their war for independence. Thomas Whiteside's 1978 book, Computer Capers, documents how a programmer at a mail-order company diverted money from rounded-down sales commissions into a phony account for three years before he was caught.