Stuxnet | The Computer Virus That Caused World War 3

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I'm a programmer with a bit of knowledge on this issue. You mentioned systems that are 30 and 40 years old and asked how vulnerable they are. In general, because they are so old, they are ironically less likely to be susceptible to standard virus attacks. They barely talk to the internet at all and that actually is a blessing. Modern systems love talking to the world and this introduces all sorts of vulnerabilities.

I cited your Stuxnet video for my college work.The class conversation was cyber crime this week Thank you for the great content

Cybersecurity Professional here. I have 9 months of food supplies, and other survival tools, and I don't think that's anywhere NEAR enough.

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Trains derailed, food recalls, factories burning and more… it sure had already started

I can't believe it's been 3 years since this one aired. One of the only channels that I go back to watch episodes over again. I remember subscribing just before it hit 23k subs. Freakin' awesome channel! 🤘

I just found your channel about a week ago and I've watched so many videos. It's great. I've liked, I've subscribed. I wanted to let you and your viewers know something. I've worked in Cyber Security for about 20 years. However bad you think it is, it's actually worse. We are incredibly fortunate that most cyber criminals are far more interested in making money than wanton destruction and that most nation states prefer intelligence gathering and surgical strikes over mass destruction because the tools to kill a nation, even our own nation, already exist. You mentioned 30 and 40 year old software being vulnerable. It doesn't take decades to find a zero day. So that software that's three months behind on patches can be just as deadly as they software that 3 years behind. When I watched your video about the Carrington Event, I had a sanguine thought. I thought that was the only type of thing that would make my job obsolete. As long as data can be communicated between any two systems, there is cyber security risk. I want to say that your coverage and explanation of Stuxnet in this video was incredible. I cannot believe how well you described and explained everything. You took something very technical and turned it into something anyone can understand. That's a rare talent.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer/Researcher I've seen dozens of variations of Stuxnet, I've installed a few versions in my lab just to see it and is truly remarkable. Keep in mind this is old news theres much more advanced stuff out there. The biggest vulnerability at the end of the day is you...the human end user. To WF you did an incredible job explaining this to all audiences I plan to share this video with my user base as a resource. Thank you!

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I teared up when you said you miss the days when, what we thought then was the worst, the world was a safer place. I felt that.

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Stuxnet was AI's first attempt at testing mankind..

2 years later, the idea that AI will eventually gain access to, and learn from this code presents a terrifying scenario...

This is not the first use of cyber warfare by the US. The state department sold a bunch of printers to the government of Iraq prior to its invasion of Kuwait. These printers had guidance chips installed in them, used to guide bombs in the opening of the air war for operation Desert Shield.

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