Thought for a moment it was this Clarke.
That would have been far cooler and much less scary.

Richard Clarke spins spooky stories to drum up business...again.

syberpud: Richard Clarke spins spooky stories to drum up business...again.

The problem is, they're spooky stories which are probably true. There's good reason to believe pretty much everything he claimed in TFA. And he's not the only one saying it.

FTFW: On 1 September 2011, a new worm was found, thought to be related to Stuxnet. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics analyzed the malware, naming the threat Duqu.[115][116] Symantec, based on this report, continued the analysis of the threat, calling it "nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose", and published a detailed technical paper.[117] The main component used in Duqu is designed to capture information[20] such as keystrokes and system information. The exfiltrated data may be used to enable a future Stuxnet-like attack. On 28 December 2011, Kaspersky Lab's director of global research & analysis spoke to Reuters about recent research results showing the platform Stuxnet and Duqu are built on originated in 2007 and is being referred to as Tilded, due to the ~d at the beginning of the file names. Also uncovered in this research was the possibility for 3 more variants based on the Tilded platform.[118]

What could possibly go wrong?

So I can blame the Judeo-Christian zealots in this country for goofing up and allowing China to leach away our economy?

One thing I've learned from the U.S. government: Everything they say regarding security is the opposite of the truth. It's the grand game of poker...

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One thing I've learned from the U.S. government: Everything they say regarding security is the opposite of the truth. It's the grand game of poker...

Then you've learned nothing.

goatleggedfellow: So I can blame the Judeo-Christian zealots in this country for goofing up and allowing China to leach away our economy?

The Chinese penetration of U.S. companies was already going on already anyway. This is just one tool. They have plenty of resources to come up with many on their own. I haven't heard of evidence that China in particular has repurposed it yet (although there have been some who have suggested that, for several reasons, it could have actually been made and released by China in the first place).

Cagey B: FTFW: On 1 September 2011, a new worm was found, thought to be related to Stuxnet. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics analyzed the malware, naming the threat Duqu.[115][116] Symantec, based on this report, continued the analysis of the threat, calling it "nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose", and published a detailed technical paper.[117] The main component used in Duqu is designed to capture information[20] such as keystrokes and system information. The exfiltrated data may be used to enable a future Stuxnet-like attack. On 28 December 2011, Kaspersky Lab's director of global research & analysis spoke to Reuters about recent research results showing the platform Stuxnet and Duqu are built on originated in 2007 and is being referred to as Tilded, due to the ~d at the beginning of the file names. Also uncovered in this research was the possibility for 3 more variants based on the Tilded platform.[118]

What could possibly go wrong?

If only the "geniuses" who created Stuxnet had been aware that once you put code out there it doesn't just "use itself up" in the execution, but rather, remains out there for anyone to do with how ever they please. The minute Stuxnet was set loose on Iran, its makers had handed everyone on the planet with sufficient know-how the first weaponized computer program.

He tracks stuxnet to the US because he sees the hand of lawyers all over it? I find that, um, actually I'm totally convinced.

Heron: Cagey B: FTFW: On 1 September 2011, a new worm was found, thought to be related to Stuxnet. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics analyzed the malware, naming the threat Duqu.[115][116] Symantec, based on this report, continued the analysis of the threat, calling it "nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose", and published a detailed technical paper.[117] The main component used in Duqu is designed to capture information[20] such as keystrokes and system information. The exfiltrated data may be used to enable a future Stuxnet-like attack. On 28 December 2011, Kaspersky Lab's director of global research & analysis spoke to Reuters about recent research results showing the platform Stuxnet and Duqu are built on originated in 2007 and is being referred to as Tilded, due to the ~d at the beginning of the file names. Also uncovered in this research was the possibility for 3 more variants based on the Tilded platform.[118]

What could possibly go wrong?

If only the "geniuses" who created Stuxnet had been aware that once you put code out there it doesn't just "use itself up" in the execution, but rather, remains out there for anyone to do with how ever they please. The minute Stuxnet was set loose on Iran, its makers had handed everyone on the planet with sufficient know-how the first weaponized computer program.


You don't think any of the people with sufficient know-how were already developing weaponized programs of their own? The code for this program becomes drastically less useful the moment the exploits it uses get fixed, and the general idea of a software weapon of this sort was hardly new.