tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-02:564947 jrtom jrtom 2010-11-18T02:38:53Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-02:564947:298768 2010-11-18T02:38:53Z 2010-11-18T02:38:53Z depressed public 1 <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/0347231/Stuxnet-Was-Designed-To-Subtly-Interfere-With-Uranium-Enrichment">http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/0347231/Stuxnet-Was-Designed-To-Subtly-Interfere-With-Uranium-Enrichment</a><br /><br />*sigh*<br /><br />Fortunately, there are people at Google who are (demonstrably) far more versed in dealing with this kind of problem than I am. And they're welcome to it.<br /><br />That said, there's unfortunately more than enough related work to go around.<br /><br />But seriously, I find this kind of threat actually considerably more alarming than the threat of terrorists blowing themselves up on airplanes. Not only because I don't find the latter to be something that is apparently that hard to prevent, but because there's a lot more to be _gained_ by a lot more people that don't have to die in order to carry out the former sort of attack.<br /><br />And, you know, honestly we've got a lot more interesting problems to solve than figuring out how to keep people from hacking into our electrical grid. Or nuclear launch authorization systems. And so forth. I hate working on problems that I feel wouldn't exist as tasks if some people weren't jerks.<br /><br />Interesting times, indeed.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jrtom&ditemid=298768" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments