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This is such a laughably typical strawman excuse that is used to shut down all discussion on this topic.

I believe the parent may have been referring to Stuxnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It is indeed possible that if the NSA used a very different strategy with vulnerabilities, Iran might be further along with its nuclear weapons development.

Iran was using out of date software and hardware IIRC, so Stuxnet would still have been possible.

Stuxnet will always be possible. The vulns/trojans just replace having to get someone to knowingly install it.

Or rather, will always be possible until we move to doing protocol and behavior analysis of SCADA commands (as they enter the machine). And that'll just mean it has to get more subtle. If there's a way to do it right, there're more ways to do it wrong.

Typical of what? Obviosity? We've got a poster here claiming that business are "going to" get exploited, and in the meantime, non-theoretically (consider reading the Wikipedia [1] article on "strawman"), the U.S. Govt is making productive use of exploits today.

You're the one trying to shut down discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

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