Monday, January 17, 2011

Stuxnet In The Middle With You

Like Infidel I am very impressed by what the Stuxnet computer virus thingy has done to the Iranian nuclear programme. Making war by outwitting the enemy rather than killing them is an all round improvement.

Up until now cyber warfare has largely meant either Chinese epionage or Russia's petulant denial of service attacks against their enemies. This is much more sophisticated and suggests that the West is just as keen on using computers as weapons.

The only regrettable part is that it is now known about so therefore less effective.

3 comments:

James Higham said...

There'll be new ones tomorrow.

Ross said...

Yeah that's true.

Anonymous said...

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see you around and Thank you (sorry if this is the wrong thread to post)