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STUXNET WORM really quite clever. So far as messing with the Iranians is concerned, that?s great. ?

By Glenn Reynolds

STUXNET WORM really quite clever. So far as messing with the Iranians is concerned, that’s great. But there’s this:

Widespread distribution of the Stuxnet code could lead to disaster. Equipment made by Siemens and its competitors is used around the globe to manage virtually all of the world?s transportation, power distribution and communications systems. Joe Weiss, managing partner at Applied Control Systems, a consulting firm based in the Silicon Valley that organized the conference in September, said he was concerned that computer security organizations were not adequately conveying the potential for serious industrial sabotage that Stuxnet foretells.

?I just want the lights to stay on and water flowing, and people not dying,? he said.

Amen.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 20, 2010 (boomark / email).