Stuxnet.

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"a precision, military-grade cyber missile deployed early last year to seek out and destroy one real-world target of high importance – a target still unknown."

Thanks to the tip from the blog Jungle Trader.

Here is a description of a malware, a worm, infecting computers as currently found at industrial sites and plants world-wide. Stuxnet most properly perceived and thought of as a WEAPON OR WAR! Invasive, insidious, able to destroy OBJECTS in a manner not totally dissimilar as would be the results from a military attack by combat aircraft dropping conventional ordnance.

"Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant?"

"The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it's a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant."

A malware not merely rendering the function of a computer null and void - - but destroying in the process a physical object. An industrial plant, a process, a factory put out of action!

"Stuxnet's arrival heralds something blindingly new: a cyber weapon created to cross from the digital realm to the physical world – to destroy something"

A malware of incredible, even PROFOUND sophistication, NOT the work of an amateur. A malware designed as a weapon of cyberwarfare, ONLY a handful [?] of nations having the ability, the expertise, the know-how, the wherewithal to design and create such software.

"it took a massive expenditure of time, money, and software engineering talent to identify and exploit such vulnerabilities in industrial control software systems."

The Iranian just-recently-fueled-now-on-line nuclear reactor at Bushehr being the main target of this malware - - Stuxnet?

This malware is in keeping with the admonitions and teachings of Machiavelli? "men more frequently advance themselves by guile and artifice than by force!!"

YES indeed!

coolbert.