We will rue Stuxnet?s cavalier deployment

At a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv yesterday, the Russian antivirus expert who discovered the Flame computer virus, a type of malicious software, appealed to the US and Israel to cease deploying cyberweapons. They ?are a very bad idea?, he said. ?My message is: stop doing this before it?s too late.? How right Eugen Kaspersky was.

Until now, cyberwarfare has been largely confined to Hollywood or to the prophecies of a few Cassandras warning darkly of a ?digital Pearl Harbor? or ?Cybergeddon?. But two closely linked events last week should give everyone cause for concern. An arms race in cyberspace is a distinct reality.

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Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b674600-afc7-11e1-a025-00144feabdc0.html

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