“But in the 21st century, Bond doesn’t get the call,” Barnes reports. “Instead, the job is handled by a suave and very sophisticated secret computer worm, a jumble of code called Stuxnet, which in the last year has not only crippled Iran’s nuclear program but has caused a major rethinking of computer security around the globe.”
Barnes reports, “Stuxnet is an incredibly advanced, undetectable computer worm that took years to construct and was designed to jump from computer to computer until it found the specific, protected control system that it aimed to destroy: Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Whoda thunk it? Microsoft’s ineptitude turns out to be good for something after all! You should’ve got a Mac, Ahmadinejad, you batshit insane son-a-ma-batch.
“Here’s to the crazy ones,” indeed.
Wrong MDN.
US Federal Gubment sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. Oh but I forgot, Gubment bad, inept and inefficient.
Who would have thought: Steve Ballmer = double O zero
@Macaday,
Call me names. I don’t care. Remember all the propaganda we heard about Iraq in the lead up to Bush’s inasion?
We’re being fed the same non-sense about Iran. Big boogie man Iran that spends roughly 1% of what the US does on its military.
Wikileaks-schmikileaks.
Obviously, should have typed “invasion.”
It still would’ve failed without the worm anyways…
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> You need to just wait for Windows to do its thing.
I have a couple of Windows Media Center setups and sometimes they restart and report a problem, just cause they can. You don’t have to do anything or install anything, they don’t even have keyboards or pointing devices to be used as regular computers and still they just fail miserably.
When I catch them doing that (cause sometimes they do their thing and fix themselves, but still report, you know Windows) I just think or say it out loud, “that’s Windows!” and laugh it off. 😀
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