Replying again since this is getting downvoted so hard. I made two distinct points, one of which was corrected by tptacek, the other, which is the above, I stil

Replying again since this is getting downvoted so hard. I made two distinct points, one of which was corrected by tptacek, the other, which is the above, I still stand by. There is a huge leap from "this is a technologically advanced piece of software" to "this is a virus written by the US government in collaboration with Mossad targeting evil regimes." I fail to see why people believe it so irrational to practice caution here - some of the most technically sophisticated code ever written happened in darkened bedrooms on a school night; David Huffman invented what to this day remains one of the most efficient coding systems working alone on a term paper while still at school. This is the only example that comes to mind, but computing, perhaps more than any other field is littered with examples of small groups having huge effects. Is it so hard to imagine some 20mb binary bundling SQLite and Lua might have been written outside of a heavily funded, super secret mountain base? I would posit more interesting than the existence of the code itself, is the behavior of otherwise seasoned computer nerds grasping desperately to the belief that this "weapon" could only be the creation of their own government, perhaps it is testament to little more than a failure of imagination.