Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility

Re:Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility by jonplackett on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:50PM (#26771693)

Does everyone agree with that assessment? Surely Linux is more complicated than Stuxnet? Or does that not count as a ‘single piece’?

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Re:Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility by crazygringo on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:04PM (#26771774)

Sophisticated != complicated

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Re:Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility by jonplackett on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:57AM (#26778362)

Ok, but I would have presumed linux was also more sophisticated, having been developed over a much longer period of time.

What is it that’s more sophisticated about stuxnet than Linux?

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Re:Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility by crazygringo on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:29PM (#26781411)

A good rule of thumb to think about it might be, how many people in the world could write code to achieve a particular objective?

If the answer is 100,000's of people (i.e. good programmers), then it's not super-sophisticated, no matter how complicated it may be.

If the answer is 100's of people, then it is super-sophisticated. Stuxnet appears to be the latter, given the advanced techniques, zero-days, and target knowledge it required.

Think of it like the difference between New York City and a nuclear fusion warhead. New York City is incredibly more complicated than a warhead, but a warhead is incredibly more sophsiticated.

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