GADFRAN
Experienced Member
Anyone following the use of the computer worm – nicknamed Stuxnet - [project code name Olympic Games] ?
It literally had many of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges self destruct !
Unfortunately the worm “escaped “ and infected computers worldwide.
How many times have we heard this story before [e.g. real life and movies like Jurassic Park, Lost World, etc.] ?
The good news is that if you were “ not” operating nuclear centrifuges, you were fine. But if you were ……………………..???
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Last week The New York Times reported it. “Confront and Conceal” is a new book on this topic by David Sanger their chief Washington Correspondent.
I heard the interview of him by Terry Gross of WHYY-FM radio of Philadelphia, PA. She is a long time “top notch” interviewer on many “hot topics “ of the day. Just do a Google search.
Pretty scary !
Murphy’s law is still alive and well !
Many of us in computing for decades can anticipate what may happen next – e.g. retaliation, more sophisticated worms, more tragedies, law of unintentional consequences, etc.
As the famous saying goes – “once the genie is outside the box, you can never get it back in ! “ We saw this so well with respect to nuclear weapons decades ago and now with Iran and who else ?
As they noted during the interview, the USA is most vulnerable to cyber attacks since we are so dependent on computing compared to many other countries. Check out one of Tom Clancy’s novels about what it does to Wall Street.
Stay tuned ! It is going to be quite the ride as long as we continue to exist of course..
All part of my STS – NSF [science, technology and society – National Science Foundation] research as so many of you know.
Frank
P.S.
As the media notes, all part of Obama’s “Afghan Good Enough” strategy. Sounds much like Osborne’s “adequate is sufficient “ [see his book “Hypergrowth !”
It literally had many of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges self destruct !
Unfortunately the worm “escaped “ and infected computers worldwide.
How many times have we heard this story before [e.g. real life and movies like Jurassic Park, Lost World, etc.] ?
The good news is that if you were “ not” operating nuclear centrifuges, you were fine. But if you were ……………………..???
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Last week The New York Times reported it. “Confront and Conceal” is a new book on this topic by David Sanger their chief Washington Correspondent.
I heard the interview of him by Terry Gross of WHYY-FM radio of Philadelphia, PA. She is a long time “top notch” interviewer on many “hot topics “ of the day. Just do a Google search.
Pretty scary !
Murphy’s law is still alive and well !
Many of us in computing for decades can anticipate what may happen next – e.g. retaliation, more sophisticated worms, more tragedies, law of unintentional consequences, etc.
As the famous saying goes – “once the genie is outside the box, you can never get it back in ! “ We saw this so well with respect to nuclear weapons decades ago and now with Iran and who else ?
As they noted during the interview, the USA is most vulnerable to cyber attacks since we are so dependent on computing compared to many other countries. Check out one of Tom Clancy’s novels about what it does to Wall Street.
Stay tuned ! It is going to be quite the ride as long as we continue to exist of course..
All part of my STS – NSF [science, technology and society – National Science Foundation] research as so many of you know.
Frank
P.S.
As the media notes, all part of Obama’s “Afghan Good Enough” strategy. Sounds much like Osborne’s “adequate is sufficient “ [see his book “Hypergrowth !”
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