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The volcanoes of Kamchatka were calling to
Eugene Kaspersky. In the first week of July, the 45-year-old C.E.O. and
co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s fourth-largest
computer-security company, had been in his Moscow office, counting the
minutes until his Siberian vacation would start, when one of his
engineers, who had just received a call about Stuxnet from Microsoft,
came rushing in, barely coherent: “Eugene, you don’t believe, something
very frightening, frightening, frightening bad.”
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Near the start of September, Langner Googled
“Myrtus” and “Hebrew” and saw a reference to the book of Esther, a
biblical story in which Jews foil a Persian plot against them. He then
Googled “Iran” and “nuclear,” looking for signs of trouble, and
discovered that the Bushehr power plant had been experiencing mysterious
construction delays.
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Stuxnet, Rieger suggests, may be a new
expression of a long-standing American tradition of sabotaging enemy
technology. During the Reagan administration, France gave the U.S. a
cache of secret Russian documents known as the Farewell Dossier, which
included a shopping list of… >>>
