Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
Submitted by Charleston Voice on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 14:46Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
Stuxnet was never meant to propagate in the wild - and government cyber terrorists can't retrieve it!
by Nate Anderson - June 1 2012, 6:00am EDT
The new account is unlikely to alter Iran's view of the US, seen here in a mural on the old US embassy in Tehran
David Holt
In 2011, the US government rolled out its "International Strategy for Cyberspace," which reminded us that "interconnected networks link nations more closely, so an attack on one nation’s networks may have impact far beyond its borders." An in-depth report today from the New York Times confirms the truth of that statement as it finally lays bare the history and development of the Stuxnet virus—and how it accidentally escaped from the Iranian nuclear facility that was its target.
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