By Kim Zetter
Audiobook
Very interesting. Keeps me attention at the gym. I'm fascinated by this topic anyway so that helps too but very interesting.
Stuxnet was a worm released by The US with an assist from Israel sent to disable the centrifuges in the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran.
The bug was captured in the wild and through subtle clues was traced back to the source - Us. So the first shots fired in the international cyber war were fired by the USA.
I guess it's a little more subtle that the Israeli's at Osirak. Sadam was out there like fargin' Maroney saying "I'm gonna know down the wall, and this wall, and that fargin' wall over there." And then therebwas nothing but a hole in the ground. "You fargin' a sneeky bastages."
So yeah, i guess it was better than bombjng them.
I just wonder hownthey got the bugnto cross the air gap. Someone had to load it on the machine in person. I wonder how they pulled that off. Maybe they'll yet say in the book. I'm still in the beginning.
Finished this this morning at the gym. Very interesting book to say the least. I have to look into this "zero day" bug issue a little more. I love the quote from one of the US security officials that said it is a though we, who live in a glass house have just thrown a stone. It may come back to bite us. I mean we have certainly surrendered the moral high ground here with this attack. Many woes can become us when our digital infastructure is attacked.
Certainly alot to think about.
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