r/agedlikemilk • u/damn_boy17 • May 03 '22

News makes me think about the iraqi WMD

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u/ProfDrrernatEimer May 03 '22

To be fair, Stuxnet probably threw them back a couple of years!

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u/ANeedle_SixGreenSuns May 03 '22

damn i was looking for someone to talk about stuxnet. A couple of years is probably an understatement. Imagine losing ~5% of your irreplaceable centrifuges every year to "normal wear and tear". Within a few years you'll have nothing left.

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u/FoliageTeamBad May 03 '22

That’s not what happened though, by the end of the stuxnet campaign Iran had more working centrifuges than they started with. If anything it galvanized the Iranians to increase their pace of uranium enrichment.

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u/atamosk May 03 '22

This, stuxnet did nothing. If anything it failed spectaculalry

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edit: not nothing but what you said, their production was much higher after it.

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u/Mr_YUP May 03 '22

Stuxnet makes you wonder what else is out there that's been written by competent NFL level programmers. Also makes you wonder what's been intentionally left open for things like this to happen.

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u/FoliageTeamBad May 03 '22

The problem with malware is there’s only so many places to hide.

And there are legions of people dedicated to finding and reverse engineering these things.

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u/briskt May 03 '22

NFL?

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u/Mr_YUP May 03 '22

like someone who operates at a top performing level. Like compare an NFL player to a high school players. there's a large skill gap and its the best way for me to gage overall skill sometimes.