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Stuxnet has nothing to do with "nuclear reactors". It targeted uranium enrichment centrifuges.
by irq 16y ago
Stuxnet has nothing to do with "nuclear reactors". It targeted uranium enrichment centrifuges.
- wipt 16y agoAnd the uranium is use for? (weapons aside)
- JeremyBanks 16y agoThe post he was replying to said 2. The payload it uses to damage nuclear reactors He was pointing out that it doesn't directly damage them.
- derefr 16y agoI believe the point is that "to damage nuclear reactors" conjures a far different (and more explosive) mental image than "to damage nuclear enrichment facilities", even if the economic impact is the same.
- russell_h 16y agoCorrected, my mistake. I even managed to get it right the first time in the paragraph below that, it must be the sleep deprivation catching up with me.
- russell_h 16y agosigh, so in the process of fixing the list formatting and making an edit note I didn't actually fix the text. Time for a nap.
- bugsy 16y agoIt has nothing to do with nuclear reactors, that is correct. It has to do with production of fissile material for nuclear bombs being developed by a psychotic islamic fundamentalist state run by a madman. If someone is writing viruses to destroy clean energy from modern nuclear reactors, that is a bad virus. But if they are writing viruses to stop radical fundamentalists from building The Bomb, well that is OK by me.