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What do you think, are the authors of Stuxnet reading Hacker News? I wonder how tempting it is to comment, and what the repercussions would be.
by andrelaszlo 8y ago
What do you think, are the authors of Stuxnet reading Hacker News? I wonder how tempting it is to comment, and what the repercussions would be.
- askmike 8y ago"throwaway account for obvious reasons - I'm a devops for the C&C servers. Our process is actually quite similar to most other tech companies. We spend half our time arguing over what programming language to use (node/go/rust) and the other half arguing over whether we should use microservices."
- Clubber 8y agoI assume you spend a lot of time getting the SME to clarify what the hell they mean by "such and such," as well. :)
- bhouston 8y agoOf course at least a few of them are reading Hacker News. I understand from the Snowden files that the teams are moderately large and then run for years. So there were likely many dozens of software developers who contributed to Stuxnet.
- titzer 8y agoMy guess is no, for maximal compartmentalization. They have a treasure trove of exploits and they grab one off the shelf and might need to burn it after they use it. I bet the people finding vulnerabilities have no clue how they end up getting used. Stuxnet probably got the top shelf attack vectors, and they were burned.