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It's fascinating to think about Symantec's motivations for creating that very well-produced, streamlined video. It basically plays like an ad for Stuxnet, the g

• michaelneale 16y ago
  It would be an odd move in terms of the market though? ie how many windows machines/networks are there which are hooked up to PLCs (well, there are a lot, but many orders of magnitude less than consumer uses of windows and pcs). Having said that - it could be VERY lucrative for them - just not in volume. Very much high end expensive product sales (which may be a direction they want to go in - now that MS and others are rolling out built in virus protection with the OS?).
  • rdtsc 16y ago
    It is all about bragging rights among the security specialists. Symantec is basically deconstructing a worm that cost some government lots of money, time and talent to create. They want to be seen as playing in the same league as the security experts at NSA, CIA or the respective equivalents of another country.
    • borism 16y ago
      more likely they don't want to be behind F-Secure who did the first widely-discussed Stuxnet write-up.
      • rdtsc 16y ago
        but then why did F-Secure bother with the write-up ?
        • borism 16y ago
          certainly not because they want to be seen on par with CIA or NSA :)
• phlux 16y ago
  meta insight is meta
• NHQ 16y ago
  When in the future your smart wireless coffee grinder starts wiggin' out, you'll know who's annoying software to download.