Hello,
I posted this in the Science forum also, but I think its a bit missplaced, so here we go again

Three days ago a new report hit the pages of the internet with a thorough and deepgoing report regarding Stuxnet, the most menacing and complex virus to date. The report itself is so wellwritten and so precise its allmost like reading a thriller.

if you dont know anything about Stuxnet you should watch this movie first which gives a brief explanation about the virus and its target



Here is one of the researchs which dug into the virus, that explains some more
http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/29/crack...er-on-ted-com/


And here is the actual report.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...-stuxnet/all/1

Enjoy

Pretty incredible.

as chris anderson said at the end of the ted talk, "thank you for scaring the living daylights out of us."

Looks like scifi, but the future is allready here. War have allways been over money and dominance, I think in the future we will move closer towards a hackerwar whenever conflicts appear.

From the Wired.com link:
This is fascinating.

had hoped for some more response, but guess a pokerforum is not the right place to discuss this

Well, you also posted it at 3:46 AM CST...give it till noon, gurantee it will get some discussion

Do you own a ****ing watch?

Bull****. 1982:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

[QUOTE=LukeG;27606775]Do you own a ****ing watch?[/QUOTE

I had one, stuxnet destroyed it.

Just watched the video its pretty interesting stuff. Prob will be reading up on it a little bit later.. maybe mention it in the the playground programming forum?

Yeah but that wasn't real.

This was also already posted in the great magazine articles thread a few months ago.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...0&postcount=61

Thanks for sharing. I know alot of information has allready been released on the subject, that doesnt mean its the same information

wow, you are a ****ing idiot.

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YOU ALL CAN STOP NOTIFYING ON THIS POST. THIS IS TOTALLY OK BY OOT'S RULES AND HE'S RIGHT TOO.

I don't get it. This virus has a very specific target and a date to self destruct. Why again is this the most menacing virus?

I think it could be menacing if someone learned to use it's strengths with respect to damaging other systems. I think the key thing is how effective it can be and how stealthy it can be. The actual virus had a job and I guess did it. The problem is if someone learns how to use it for other types of targets--it'll be very tough to stop at this point.

what, you think its unreasonable to post a thread in the middle of the night and expect a page of replies in 3 hours?

Does anyone find it odd that the OP is talking about a virus and posted links?

because now instead of worrying about viruses hacking your facebook page and spreading spam or crashing your computer and erasing all your porn, you have to worry about viruses that hack a nuclear power plant and cause a meltdown that kills millions.

Its menacing because it opens a pandora's box. A computer virus designed to cause physical, real world damage to infrastructure? It was basically initially discovered through dumb luck and a team of guys who just randomly chose to devote all their time to figuring it out. If it hadn't been found in such a way who knows the amount of damage it might have caused.

It is also incredibly complex and sophisticated and hints at future cyberwarfare between states that have the resources to devote to something like this. As was said in the article, most viruses are simple, designed by relative amateurs, whereas this must have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at a minimum and taken a lot of man hours to create.

It's just another weapon. The idea that the US and Israel were going to allow Irans' nuke program to continue is laughable. This is by far the most palatable way of disabling their program without any serious repurcussions.

Alobar, you really store porn?

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This sounds like complete garbage, but since it's on Wikipedia, my doubts are mollified.

tony_p has to be the most miserable poster on this board.