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Re: Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb

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Post by portman » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 4:43 PM UTC

amackera wrote: post #49

jser wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sallie mae = student loans. fannie mae and freddie mac are home mortgage only.

Did all the financial institutions in the States get together to come up with the most ridiculous sounding names?

They're attempts to phonetically sound out the acronym.

FNMA = Federal National Mortgage Association = "Fannie Mae"

SLMA = Student Loan Marketing Association = "Sallie Mae"

Re: Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb

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Post by manche » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 4:49 PM UTC

Remind me again, how many months did the Fannie Mae executives get for bombing the economy?

Re: Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

amackera wrote: post #49

jser wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sallie mae = student loans. fannie mae and freddie mac are home mortgage only.

Did all the financial institutions in the States get together to come up with the most ridiculous sounding names?

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Re: Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb

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Post by miniatureape » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

portman wrote: post #51

amackera wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did all the financial institutions in the States get together to come up with the most ridiculous sounding names?

They're attempts to phonetically sound out the acronym. FNMA = Federal National Mortgage Association = "Fannie Mae" SLMA = Student Loan Marketing Association = "Sallie Mae"

Attempts that gives them "folksy" small-bank sounding names.