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RangerDave
PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:39 pm 
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This may be old news to the more tech savvy folks here, but it's the first I've heard of it. Scary if true:

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Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy a real-world target – a factory, a refinery, or just maybe a nuclear power plant. The cyber worm, called Stuxnet, has been the object of intense study since its detection in June. As more has become known about it, alarm about its capabilities and purpose have grown. Some top cyber security experts now say Stuxnet's arrival heralds something blindingly new: a cyber weapon created to cross from the digital realm to the physical world – to destroy something.
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NPR had an interesting piece over the legalities of cyberwarfare, and how and when it crossed over into a recognized Act of War.

Extending the Law of War to Cyber Attacks

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Some indications are that it was created by the U.S. to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Where do we all meet up when Skynet launches the nukes? I forgot.

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Screeling wrote:
Where do we all meet up when Skynet launches the nukes? I forgot.


Valhalla!
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Darkroland wrote:
Screeling wrote:
Where do we all meet up when Skynet launches the nukes? I forgot.


Valhalla!

I'm more of a lover than a fighter, though.

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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Darkroland wrote:
Screeling wrote:
Where do we all meet up when Skynet launches the nukes? I forgot.


Valhalla!

I'm more of a lover than a fighter, though.


That's ok, be honorable and you could still go to Sessrúmnir.
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