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I actually found myself disappointed that it turned out to be something as pedestrian as C on Visual Studio - I thought (hoped?) it would be something really ob
by jgw 15y ago
I actually found myself disappointed that it turned out to be something as pedestrian as C on Visual Studio - I thought (hoped?) it would be something really obscure and exotic.
I confess that I'm tickled silly by the whole mystery of Stuxnet. It must have been a fascinating project to work on.
- gaius 15y agoWe do now know however that one compiler flag is all it takes to throw off professional, full-time reverse-engineers. That's got to be valuable to someone.
- lukeschlather 15y agoWell, to be fair, according to the article it was two compiler flags.
- gaius 15y agoEither way, Team Kaspersky didn't exactly cover themselves in glory. Probably the 2nd most used compiler on the planet, in the most obvious language. God help them if someone really did confront them with an exotic language.
- drats 15y agoWouldn't you expect an exploit to be written in a low level/system level language on the very platform(and associated tool-chain) it is targeting?
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- crag 15y agoC is perfect. It's low level and compiles on every platform in the world. I wonder why this "research" hasn't been shut down by various governments. Yet. Unless it leads to a red herring.
- unimpressive 15y ago>I wonder why this "research" hasn't been shut down by various governments. Yet. Unless it leads to a red herring. Because anyone who stepped in to stop it would be basically admitting involvement. Right now the perpetrators are likely exactly where they want to be. Speculated on as a possibility, but unconfirmed. And unconfirmed they will likely remain.