Putting Stuxnet into perspective

My fellow humans, a great day could be dawning.  We may be bearing witness to the birth of actual artificial intelligence.  Sundance Cracker explains the true awesomeness of the Stuxnet virus, which has crippled Iran's attempt to hold the world at nukepoint develop a clean source of energy for entirely innocent purposes.

Langer argues that no single Western intelligence agency had the skills to pull this off alone. The most likely answer, he says, is that a consortium of intelligence agencies worked together to build the cyber bomb. And he says the most likely confederates are the United States, because it has the technical skills to make the virus, Germany, because reverse-engineering Sieman’s product would have taken years without it, and Russia, because of its familiarity with both the Iranian nuclear plant and Sieman’s systems.

There is one clue that was left in the code that may tell us all we need to know.  Embedded in different section of the code is another common computer language reference, but this one is misspelled. Instead of saying “DEADFOOT,” a term stolen from pilots meaning a failed engine, this one reads “DEADFOO7.”

Yes, OO7 has returned — as a computer worm.

Stuxnet…….. Shaken, not Stirred.

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