2010-10-08

it's not rocket science!

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html

Very crisp.  I didn't know it propagated through USB sticks -- those bozos deserve it if it did.

And screw you, ISRO, if India's INSAT 4B died due to stuxnet -- you guys deserve more like this before you'll come to your senses and stop using Windows.

Honestly, is Linux that hard that ROCKET SCIENTISTS can't use it?

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Meanwhile, some funny stuff from the first link, since I like their sense of humour so much:

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Q: Which factory is it looking for?
A: We don't know.

Q: Has it found the factory it's looking for?
A: We don't know.

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Q: What's the relation between Realtek and Jmicron?
A: Nothing. But these companies have their HQs in the same office park in Taiwan. Which is weird.

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Q: When did Stuxnet start spreading?
A: In June 2009, or maybe even earlier. One of the components has a compile date in January 2009.

Q: When was it discovered?
A: A year later, in June 2010.

Q: How is that possible?
A: Good question.

Q: Was Stuxnet written by a government?
A: That's what it would look like, yes.

Q: How could governments get something so complex right?
A: Trick question. Nice. Next question.

Q: Was it Israel?
A: We don't know.

Q: Was it Egypt? Saudi Arabia? USA?
A: We don't know.

Q: Was the target Iran?
A: We don't know.


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Q: What happened on 9th of May, 1979?
A: Maybe it's the birthday of the author? Then again, on that date a Jewish-Iranian businessman called Habib Elghanian was executed in Iran. He was accused to be spying for Israel.

Q: Oh.
A: Yeah.

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