Stuxnet

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Vendor

As long as you know what a worm as this is, so it is harmless,and is well protected in the system of society

This worm was anything but harmless, but the reuslt of a developement and desiogn work that must have costed millions and impossibly could have bene the work of just some gifted hackers doing it as a hobby. This worm was like one of these Russian puppets with more and more puppets inside of them - just theat the inner puppets became more and more complex and self-unfolding, and heading for very precisely defined key codes as present in certain industrial control software. It indeed compares to a description of having been the first massive use of cyberwarfare in known history. Whoever fired it up, meant serious business. Affected parts of industrial installations are still not cleared of the consequences from this strike, more than one year after the impact.


So, do not think of this thing like of just any worm we have by the dozens every day. This was a military major strike by use of a new weapon technology, plain and simple.

And that'S the reason why I do not think that Fiunland has anything to do with it, Happy Times. I also wonder if Finland has the will and the resources to invest into offensive capacities in this field. Like the German essay in the FAZ quoted an insider, this worm was of that kind that you only develope if oyu can invest, millions into carrying out such an attack, and when the alternative of not doing it would be - to launch a real war. That reduces the number of possible suspects very drastically, I would say.