A Cyber Attack May Have Caused a Turkish Oil Pipeline to Catch Fire in 2008
In his book @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, journalist Shane Harris describes how some of America’s top hackers came up with Stuxnet, a cyber-weapon that was to be the “first-of-its-kind.” (Harris is a fellow at New America, where I work; Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State.) Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 after it had degraded an estimated 1,000 centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant. It was widely considered...
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