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This Is Warfare in the Future

Posted on January 23, 2011 by eidolon

This story about the Stuxnet worm is amazing.  Even though the article is somewhat conjectural in nature, it still leaves me feeling just a little bit mind-blown.

When I was little, I couldn’t wait for “the future” to arrive.  Much of the credit for that goes to the Jetsons; my childhood vision of the future mostly involved flying cars.  (Didn’t everybody’s?)

I never thought about what the future would mean for warfare and espionage.  And I certainly never imagined that these things would be waged via computer. 

 

2 thoughts on “This Is Warfare in the Future”

  1. Steve Halter says:
    January 26, 2011 at 8:17 am

    I’ve been following the Stuxnet story over on Bruce Schneier’s blog (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html). Getting to this point where we seem to have a pretty good understanding of what the worm does and who sent it out has been a pretty interesting piece of computer forensics.
    Some pretty high stakes actions going on here.

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  2. Ian says:
    January 26, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll go check it out. I like to see what Schneier has to say about things like this. Don’t know why I never thought to go take a look on this topic.

    I found out a couple of years ago that a writer I know is very good friends with Schneier. I was pretty impressed (and still am).

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