[LINK] stuxnet story

[Richard Chirgwin]

And if a government agency were involved, "state-sponsored terrorism"?

RC

On 17/01/11 1:13 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:
> 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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