> I can see how this could be called sophisticated, but worry about language inflation because we still need something to describe technical feats that are govt

> I can see how this could be called sophisticated, but worry about language inflation because we still need something to describe technical feats that are govt/military level like Stuxnet. To start, I want to clear a potential confusion in my previous comment. By "technical wizardry" I meant "technical hacking wizardry," e.g. buffer overflows, ROP, etc. That said, I think Stuxnet and this hack may actually both be characterized by some of the same kind of sophistication I was referring to. IIRC, one of the biggest unique things about Stuxnet was the application of professional software engineering practices to malware. It wasn't a quick and dirty thing that one or two guys whipped up, it was a project, developed professionally over time by a team, to meet a set of requirements and allow code-reuse, etc. Not so much hacking wizardry but an application of government-scale money and personnel.