We’ve had computer worms before, but Stuxnet is the first I’ve heard of that was written to deliberately target something other than just another computer – that is, to affect the real world.<\/p>\n
There are good discussions here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a> that are worth reading.<\/p>\n I<\/em> certainly don’t know who wrote it or why, nor do I have the geopolitical knowledge to forecast many of the consequences that can be expected. It is an escalation of the state of conflict between computer security and system attackers.<\/p>\n It appears that the people behind Stuxnet are well-funded and very capable. One wonders if they have any other development efforts in progress, or if there are other similar groups at work already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve had computer worms before, but Stuxnet is the first I’ve heard of that was written to deliberately target something other than just another computer – that is, to affect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}