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The SCADA stuff was novel and interesting though and goes above and beyond your average malware both in what it did and the idea to do it in the first place.

A really creative hack, so to speak. (or destructive? anti-destructive? shrug)



And just to reiterate. They built a rootkit that stealthily sabotaged an effort to build nuclear weapons in a way that just made it look like the people who were trying to do it were just incompetent...

If that's not cool, I don't know what is...




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