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Does everyone agree with that assessment? Surely Linux is more complicated than Stuxnet? Or does that not count as a ‘single piece’?

• crazygringo 6y ago
  Sophisticated != complicated
  • jonplackett 6y ago
    Ok, but I would have presumed linux was also more sophisticated, having been developed over a much longer period of time. What is it that’s more sophisticated about stuxnet than Linux?
    • crazygringo 6y ago
      A good rule of thumb to think about it might be, how many people in the world could write code to achieve a particular objective? If the answer is 100,000's of people (i.e. good programmers), then it's not super-sophisticated, no matter how complicated it may be. If the answer is 100's of people, then it is super-sophisticated. Stuxnet appears to be the latter, given the advanced techniques, zero-days, and target knowledge it required. Think of it like the difference between New York City and a nuclear fusion warhead. New York City is incredibly more complicated than a warhead, but a warhead is incredibly more sophsiticated.