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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by giancarlostoro on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:46AM (#17100975)
You also somehow need access to the industrial grade target platform in some way shape or form which is not something a teenager has lying around in their room nor extensive knowledge about to this extent.
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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by sannee on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:02AM (#17101516)
You can buy the Simatic PLCs they targeted on ebay for a few hundred bucks.

Industrial automation stuff like this is a common part of the "technical high school" curricula where I live. (of course only on the "press this button and then that happens" level)

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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by packet_nerd on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:46AM (#17101866)
> not something a teenager has lying around

Ha, generally true probably, but in my case as a teen I got my hands of a bunch of old industrial PLCs and built all kinds of interesting things in my room. :-) Ladder logic is how I got started programing, I didn't even have my own computer back then.

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