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"Throughout the following emails it is revealed that HBGary Federal may have been planning to use Stuxnet for their own purposes" what does that even mean? non
by jeffreyg 16y ago
"Throughout the following emails it is revealed that HBGary Federal may have been planning to use Stuxnet for their own purposes"
what does that even mean? nonsensical.
- nailer 16y agoParses fine here. "Here are some emails that show this company was planning to use Stuxnet" Stuxnet is a distributed bot. It can be commanded. The post is saying this company planned to do that. I don't know whether that's true or not but it seems easy to understand.
- jeffreyg 16y agolate reply but hopefully you'll see. AFAIK, stuxnet is not an application where you can simply 'remove' the centrifuge-targeting payload and add your own. That, combined with the fact that all 4 0-days have been patched, means that I don't think the author's commentary is accurate. There are much better options for HBGary had they wanted command of a distributed botnet and they would have known that.