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ESKIMO
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Stuxnet - The 'New' Biggest Threat to the World's Economy or Just Another (Allbeit) Late 'Millenium Bug'?
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=Stuxnet
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=Stuxnet
Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."
Waste Not, Want Not. - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Waste Not, Want Not. - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Stuxnet? 8 votes
Biggest Threat To The World's Economy
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0 votes
Undecided
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1 vote
Don't Care
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Pure Hocus-Pokus
75%
6 votes
Just Another (Allbeit) Late 'Millenium Bug'
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1 vote
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it's definately not a millenium bug, and the virus has only been designed infect a cirtain corporate system (eg irans nuclear power stations) so it shouldnt effect home users or other big corprations, and apple will be fully secure0
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It's specifically designed to target Microsoft Windows however there is growing concern that it is being developed to hijack other operating systems.Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."
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It certainly isn't a millennium bug, because it's misspelled. And ten (or eleven?) years late.0
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This: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html is a more measured account regarding the malware.0
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Its an old story some people/news agency have only just caught up with it .
If you are running a home computer it has no effect unless you attach to a nuclear reactor or overclock past 300TerraHertz .
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ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.0 -
ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.
Not quite, but i recently 'aquired' some WMDsas a trade and piece offering from aliens who were intrigued to tase raw fish i recently caught. They also said that and i quote; 'Elvis never left the building'. I think i'm halucinating from the Northern Lights.
:eek:Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."
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Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?0
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Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?
I love the fact that the American's have basically admitted to the fact that they are just normal human beings afterall.
The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they...)Young At Heart and Ever The Optimist: "You can't sell ice to Eskimo."
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The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they..
Which nation would like to fix an Iranian reactor ???
jje0
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