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RESPONSIBLE!!!! That word. It’s such a shibboleth. We should never celebrate the tools of war. We should not praise those that pushed the envelope us further i
by randomhodler84 5y ago
RESPONSIBLE!!!! That word. It’s such a shibboleth.
We should never celebrate the tools of war. We should not praise those that pushed the envelope us further into cyberwarfare. Cyberwar is bad, mkay.
The very fact they were discovered, are being analyzed today, and started a global normalization of deviance with respect to fucking each other’s cybers up is a failure in my opinion.
- rosndo 5y agoDo you believe that the alternative of letting the Israelis bomb Iranian nuclear facilities would have been better? That’s what they would have done if not for Stuxnet.
- randomhodler84 5y agoLet me explain, I think we are arguing very different things. I am making a technical distinction about writing code, in that once you turn a tool of art into something less discriminate like a worm, or hide malicious and obfuscated code one crosses the line to doing active harm against your mission, whatever that is. I am not making any geopolitical statement or position on the outcome or actions beyond that which I consider a technical foul play to hurt others with software, malicious software, malicious intent. There are surely more elegant tools to wield.
- rosndo 5y agoUnfortunately I think this is a rather naive idealistic view. Software doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it very much exists in the middle of everything in the real world. Stuxnet is malware, sure. But what about the software Iranians were using to develop nuclear weapons? Surely that must be even worse?