Great points. The short term effect was costly, but was handled. But now the world knows that the capability exist and will start taking long term countermeasur

Great points. The short term effect was costly, but was handled. But now the world knows that the capability exist and will start taking long term countermeasures. Thus the cost of developing GC has now to some degree been wasted. But more scarily, the deployment showed that the method used worked (to some degree) and others will learn to implement similar tech. Thus the long term side effect is that more MITM tools will be developed and deployed. This is the premise of cyberweapons: fairly ineffective, esp on long term against the intended target. But long term side effects is big since once deployed you hand over the knowledge about the weapon tech to others when deployed. Just like Stuxnet.