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Hi. Seems that the USA and Israel were in fact responsible for the Stuxnet SCaDA infecting worm. Appears that the damage done was so severe that Iran has been forced to delay its nuclear program by over a year due to replacing thousands of centrifuges that could not be repaired.
If so then it raises a very dangerous precedent, up until now the use of viruses as a weapon has been highly controversial but this opens the floodgates for similar attacks.
My attitude is that there is no excuse, period, for using a computer virus in this way, as it encourages an arms race which can only end badly for all sides.
Should the use of viruses as a weapon by one nation against another be prohibited by international accord?
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That is an intelligent solution but the whole affair begs the question - why is something like a centrifuge computerised and networked to the degree that permits this sort of thing? I`d like to think that such critical systems are so isolated that you`d need physical access to compromise them. This is obviously not the case and it`s worrying. What`s next, terrorists derailing roller-coasters from the other side of the planet!?
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i recently read a book like decepting a story simler, the chinese waging cyberwarfare against the rest of the world using premade exploits in nuclear powerstation computers. what scares me is that it would be quite easy to exploit the computers, after all where is everything made nowadays.... china
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I'd take this over a nuclear arms race any day. Worst case scenario is that every computer on the planet fries. That would be devastating, but we could come back within a few years, and loss of life would be minimal.
Anyhow, yes, I think that widespread viruses should be prohibited, unless said nation has already broken an international law and is planning on doing something like launching a nuke or something.
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magnet18 wrote ...
I'd take this over a nuclear arms race any day. Worst case scenario is that every computer on the planet fries. That would be devastating, but we could come back within a few years, and loss of life would be minimal.
Anyhow, yes, I think that widespread viruses should be prohibited, unless said nation has already broken an international law and is planning on doing something like launching a nuke or something.
Unless they shutdown a nuclear plant or hoover dam or something
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"My attitude is that there is no excuse, period, for using a computer virus in this way, as it encourages an arms race which can only end badly for all sides."
Stuxnet: Number of civilian and military casualties: ~0 Cost of deployment: <~$6 million
Cost of War in Iraq: ~$900 billion taxpayers' funds spent ~4,469 US troops (54% of US casualties were under 25 years old)
The number of nuclear armed rouge countries is still down by one for now, and it cost far less than the alternative method.
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