"The 2007 variant resolves that mystery by making it clear that the 417 attack code had at one time been fully complete and enabled before the attackers disabled it in later versions of the weapon."
The thing that struck me most was the use of the word "weapon"[1]. Jeff Moss warned in his 2011 BlackHat opening speech that blurring the line between cyberwarfare and actual warfare is inevitable. Wired's use of "weapon" here signifies that shift, and really reinforces the fact that each one of us who is writing software may play a part in cyber wars, even if inadvertently.
[1]It may have been an unintentional use of "weapon," as Stuxnet is referred to as a "cyberweapon" throughout the article, but the point that we are moving towards describing cyber warfare as actual warfare still stands.
The thing that struck me most was the use of the word "weapon"[1]. Jeff Moss warned in his 2011 BlackHat opening speech that blurring the line between cyberwarfare and actual warfare is inevitable. Wired's use of "weapon" here signifies that shift, and really reinforces the fact that each one of us who is writing software may play a part in cyber wars, even if inadvertently.
[1]It may have been an unintentional use of "weapon," as Stuxnet is referred to as a "cyberweapon" throughout the article, but the point that we are moving towards describing cyber warfare as actual warfare still stands.