US, Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

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rocketpig said:

I can't believe this hasn't received a single response. Stuxnet is one of the most fascinating events of the past ten years and it shows how wars will be fought in the future.

With that said, I'm going to have to read more on how it "escaped" and went into the wild. Given the incredibly specific commands within the virus, it's hard to see how it would do much of anything without the limiting confines given to it.

In the wild, what would it do? I'd assume that it's written to fool a Linux environment (just hypothesizing here) but without the specific set of programs to convince it *wasn't* running while spinning a centrifuge faster than it should, what the hell exactly would it do? In theory, I suppose it would replicate willy-nilly (what is the point of a virus that doesn't) but how was it discovered?

Well, it's something must rightwing people would support, and would make Obama look bad to most leftwing people.

That said, I find it funny how this and other cyberwars have tended to be the worst kept secrets ever.  Pretty much as soon as that virus was released everyone knew who did it.  Just like when the Chinese hacked a bunch of US companies.

It might show how wars are fought in the future, but in the present it seems more like the "cold war" with nobody losing too much sleep over lost code.

I believe actually the thing infects Windows computers.  Iran using pirated windows technology.

So basically what it'll do in the wild is spread around and take up space, and that's probably it.