[LINK] stuxnet story

[Jon Seymour]

Is there any doubt that had such a worm been directed at an Israeli or
US nuclear plant the perpetrators would have been described as
terrorists?

Jon.

On Monday, January 17, 2011, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
> http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-and-israel-in-iran-cyber-attack-20110116-19sgq.html
> The worm itself now appears to have included two major components.
> One was designed to send Iran's nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly
> out of control.
>
> Another seems out of the movies: the computer program also secretly
> recorded what operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then
> played those readings back to plant operators so that it would appear
> that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were
> actually tearing themselves apart.
> ---
>
> clever
>
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