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From the NY Times of 25 Sept 2010:
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Stuxnet, which was first publicly identified several months ago, is aimed solely at industrial equipment made by Siemens that controls oil pipelines, electric utilities, nuclear facilities and other large industrial sites.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
The thing that got me was other countries found it easy to remove with commercially available anti-virus programs. Does the UN embargo on Iran include Norton?
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A surgical strike of this nature can have reconnaissance value in that previously unknown facilities of interest may be revealed through monitoring of internal message traffic about the strike's impact. Disruption may simply be a cover for this activity, especially since it is readily recoverable.