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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?

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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.
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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.
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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.
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