Philosophy
No, it's Stuxnet, not Skynet... and you may have more reason to fear the former than the latter, at least if your name is not John Connor... Stuxnet seems to be the first super weapon made entirely out of code. Unlike conventional weapons, it doesn't directly kill anyone, but this 21st century virus has the potential to wreak havoc in a scale and depth that's simply unprecedented, partly because it is open source and therefore because it can mutate...
Governments and corporations may be afraid of Anonymous, but it's probably Stuxnet they should probably fear more, as the following animation demonstrates:
And if you want to learn more, Ralph Langner describes in the following TEDTalk presentation how his team cracked the code that revealed the target, purpose and implications of this virus on steroids:
And you use Norton? How cute :)
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The goal: Make killing impersonal. "How Stuxnet cyber weapon targeted Iran nuclear plant" Researchers from California and Germany dove into the Stuxnet code and found it sought out specialized components used in Iran nuclear centrifuges – and could...
- "virus And Evolution" Poll
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Philosophy
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus
No, it's Stuxnet, not Skynet... and you may have more reason to fear the former than the latter, at least if your name is not John Connor... Stuxnet seems to be the first super weapon made entirely out of code. Unlike conventional weapons, it doesn't directly kill anyone, but this 21st century virus has the potential to wreak havoc in a scale and depth that's simply unprecedented, partly because it is open source and therefore because it can mutate...Governments and corporations may be afraid of Anonymous, but it's probably Stuxnet they should probably fear more, as the following animation demonstrates:
And if you want to learn more, Ralph Langner describes in the following TEDTalk presentation how his team cracked the code that revealed the target, purpose and implications of this virus on steroids:
And you use Norton? How cute :)
- Pithovirus Sibericum...brought To Life
"Giant Virus Resurrected from 30,000-Year-Old Ice" The discovery of the largest virus yet, still infectious, hints at the viral diversity trapped in permafrost by Ed Yong and Nature magazine March 4th, 2014 Scientific American In what seems like a...
- Is This Our New Enemy...a Faceless Enemy?
"US utility sabotage blamed on Russian hackers" by Chris Davies November 20th, 2011 SlashGear Russian hackers may have sabotaged a water pump in what’s being described as the first foreign cyber attack on US utility infrastructure, damaging both...
- A Real "ethical" Dilemma Concerning The Smallpox Virus
"Should We Destroy the Last of the World's Smallpox Virus?" by Amie Ninh May 18th, 2011 Time Global health officials at the World Health Conference in Geneva will decide this week whether to preserve or destroy the last known stockpiles of smallpox...
- Stuxnet...long Distance Death
The goal: Make killing impersonal. "How Stuxnet cyber weapon targeted Iran nuclear plant" Researchers from California and Germany dove into the Stuxnet code and found it sought out specialized components used in Iran nuclear centrifuges – and could...
- "virus And Evolution" Poll
Is it possible that deadly viruses are part of an evolutionary characteristic to control a species? Yes...3 No...3 An answer to this may never be known but it is interesting to contemplate: Viruses that kill [the very young, the very old, the very ill]...