I have no idea what’s going on here, but I like it. Turf Wars XII – The Cyberwar
I was reading this great Stuxnet cyberwar story when I read the line “It was a messy and imprecise method of attack — a little like infecting one of Osama bin Laden’s wives with a rare virus, hoping she’d pass it to the Al Qaeda leader.” Why, it’s funny you should mention that. That’s sorta what the CIA tried to do.
The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader’s family
Both the story of the Stuxnet worm that decimated Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and the genetic espionage that went into tracking down Bin Laden are great reads.
And both would have been science fiction ten years ago. A government sponsored virus, passed USB to USB, that knocks out a nuclear facility? Madness. Tracking an international terrorist via DNA? Even more absurd. But true.
The Bin Laden story is just a news report, but the Wired story on Stuxnet is an amazing long read.
Science friction.
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