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Parses fine here.

"Here are some emails that show this company was planning to use Stuxnet"

Stuxnet is a distributed bot. It can be commanded. The post is saying this company planned to do that.

I don't know whether that's true or not but it seems easy to understand.




late reply but hopefully you'll see. AFAIK, stuxnet is not an application where you can simply 'remove' the centrifuge-targeting payload and add your own. That, combined with the fact that all 4 0-days have been patched, means that I don't think the author's commentary is accurate. There are much better options for HBGary had they wanted command of a distributed botnet and they would have known that.




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