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Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by fortran77 on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:09PM (#20860444)
It's never been confirmed this was a "U.S. - Israeli" attack, if there was any attack in the first place.
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by eternalny1 on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:26PM (#20860555)
It has never been confirmed it's anything but it's been extensively researched and it's pretty obvious what it was.

It's not like this highly-targeted Siemens controller worm was a cryptojacker written by a bored teenager.

Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by thefj on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:50PM (#20860708)
Could have been a very sophisticated false flag self sabotage for no visible reason. (Not that I believe that, or think that it shouldn't be called an attack)
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by eli on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:56PM (#20861109)
This is true of literally anything and therefore is not helpful to the discussion.
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:55PM (#20861705)
Occam's razor
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by freeflight on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:13PM (#20860471)
> if there was any attack in the first place.

So Stuxnet just randomly self-assembled on the Internet, to attack very specific air-gapped industrial controllers?

Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by RandomTisk on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:12PM (#20860843)
It evolved over billions of memory bit errors from the Code Red virus.
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by mattr47 on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:42PM (#20862820)
Well that is basically how we came into existence, right? Its not like some all powerful creator programmed our DNA. So, the same random events can happen with computer viruses.
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by earenndil on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:24PM (#20863253)
It is orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less likely.
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by dfhdshfff on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:06PM (#20860805)
In the same way it was never confirmed that Israel has nuclear weapons?
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by miracle2k on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:13PM (#20860467)
The code has been analysed and it is well known how it worked and what it does. How can it not be called an attack?
Re:How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cy... by mayankkaizen on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:10PM (#20861189)
Even if this happened, why would someone confirm it and how will it be confirmed? Does US or any other country confirm that they are carrying out espionage program in other parts of world?