[liberationtech] Flame | sKyWIper - 'the son of stuxnet' -

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:12:09AM +0300, Susanne Fischer wrote:
> Hello Fabio,
> 
> is Wired part of the "media hype"?

Wired is media. Some of their articles are good.
Some less so.
 
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/
> 
> They also compare it with Stuxnet. All bullocks?

Yes.

Acording to an unnamed British security guy on
Fefe's blog:

"Sounds like something a defense contractor would do."

"Let's make it easily scriptable"

After having looked at the text strings and screenshots:

"that looks like it was done by Americans"

No proof, but it sounds reasonable enough.

P.S. More commentaries and interesting synchronicities 
concerning Flame at http://blog.fefe.de/
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