Security Expert: U.S. 'Leading Force' Behind Stuxnet

[TheTrueCentrist]

npr.org/2011/09/26/140789306/security-expert-u-s-leading-force-behind-stuxnet

One year ago, German cybersecurity expert Ralph Langner announced that he had found a computer worm designed to sabotage a nuclear facility in Iran. It’s called Stuxnet, and it was the most sophisticated worm Langner had ever seen…

Langner isn’t shy about naming the U.S. as the Stuxnet culprit, as he stated in a recent speech at the Brookings Institution. In that speech, he also made the bigger point that having developed Stuxnet as a computer weapon, the United States has in effect introduced it into the world’s cyber-arsenal.

 

[gilliam]

“Thinking about it for another minute, if it’s not aliens, it’s got to be the United States,” he says.

Pure speculation, and gossip.

Glad he was impressed, but I can think of at least 3 other countries who could have developed it outside the US. And if you count Sunni countries that don’t want to see Iran with nukes, but who have money that they can pay folks to build the code for them, another 5.

 

[matt1985]

It could have been stolen from china. China is the developer of all kinds of computer attack devices I would bet.