{"id":28428,"date":"2011-09-26T00:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_from_the_man_who_discovered_stuxnet_dire_warnings_one_year_later\/"},"modified":"2011-09-26T00:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:54:30","slug":"csm_from_the_man_who_discovered_stuxnet_dire_warnings_one_year_later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28428","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, Stuxnet may have set back Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions by years. But it also could prove a Pyrrhic victory for its still-unknown creator \u201d\u201c a sophisticated cyberweapons nation state that [ Ralph] Langner argues could be the US or Israel. Like the Hiroshima bomb, Stuxnet demonstrated for the first time a dangerous capability \u201d\u201c in this case to hackers, cybercrime gangs, and new cyberweapons states, he says in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>With Stuxnet as a &#8220;blueprint&#8221; downloadable from the Internet, he says, &#8220;any dumb hacker&#8221; can now figure out how to build and sell cyberweapons to any hacktivist or terrorist who wants &#8220;to put the lights out&#8221; in a US city or &#8220;release a toxic gas cloud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What follows are excerpts of Langner&#8217;s comments from an extended interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2011\/0922\/From-the-man-who-discovered-Stuxnet-dire-warnings-one-year-later?google_editors_picks=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, Stuxnet may have set back Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions by years. But it also could prove a Pyrrhic victory for its still-unknown creator \u201d\u201c a sophisticated cyberweapons nation state that [ Ralph] Langner argues could be the US<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28428\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,589,143,149,144,119,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}