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