On: Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code

[ascendant]

The cat can never be put back into the bag.

[guelo → ascendant]

Obama has been careless when it comes to giving the military free rein with new weapons without considering the consequences or legal precedent.

[drivebyacct2 → guelo]

Well that's a whole boat-load of assumptions and accusations. And some rather funny/naive ones at that.

[guelo → drivebyacct2]

How about telling me what it is you think instead of condescendingly calling me funny and naive. Besides the use of weaponized computer viruses, which the NY Times confirmed was done by Obama in the Stuxnet case, I am also thinking of the massive increase in drone strike assassinations, including of American citizens, in countries we are not at war with, namely Pakistan and Yemen. The only assumption I made is that Flame was also done by Obama but I don't think that is a big leap.

[AsylumWarden → ascendant]

Meow. Who says they would want to put the cat back in the bag. Part of war is showing the other side that your guns are bigger and meaner. If the US is responsible, and like others I am reasonably confident we are, then the US just flashed a really nice show of what we are capable of in a real cyberwar.

[ascendant → AsylumWarden]

My comment was more about them trying to cause it to self destruct as to slow down research.

[eevilspock → ascendant]

It could never have been kept in the bag. State-sponsored viruses and other Internet hacking are inevitable.

[leot → eevilspock]

That's not obviously true.

That one worm was discovered does not mean that every state-designed worm will be (or has been).