Stuxnet was intended to appease israeli aggression without getting our hands too dirty.
And it wouldn't cause meltdowns anyway you know, all it did was attack centrifuges and spy on everyone. Making a centrifuge toggle speeds so fast it breaks doesn't turn it into a nuclear reactor, its just a big thingy spinning around a central thingy, no nuclear physics going on

Centrifuges make regular uranium into fissile uranium. Breaking centrifuges containing fissile uranium can hardly be considered a safe endeavor.

Nah...it wouldn't have caused widespread destruction and death. It was intended to destroy nuclear infrastructure though.

Certainly not 'safe', but the only person whos life could be directly at risk is the guy who repairs the centrifuges
I have to give credit where its due, the people who wrote stuxnet did a bang-up job at it, some great coders with extremely narrow and precise targeting.
It was very specifically tailored to keeping Iran away from weapons grade enrichment, not actually sabotaging their reactors

But thats the small picture, the big picture being that the entire project was clearly a dead end endeavour committed for political reasons, not really to be an efficient attack
You can only imagine how many millions of dollars and huge effort went into creating a virus that probably didn't do any more harm to Iranian nuclear program than one loony with 5 minutes and a hammer could have done
But it sure makes Israel think we're in their corner, with them on this fight! We won't bomb Iran, but we'll throw them this bone

I'm really not a fan of appeasement in any circumstances

An understatement I think. It's pretty remarkable when the only thing that went wrong is that it spread to computers outside of Iran.

Its not *that* good coding. I've worked on more impressive things. When you have access to the hardware they were targeting like they did, the attack method itself really wasn't anything too clever, like they just got drunk and watched Ocean's Eleven
Still, a good job on it, but the project manager should be shot for such a boondoggle, at least, if it wasn't purely political

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Overseas.

So they shouldn't be taxed and they shouldn't vote.