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Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

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When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.

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TEDTalks, TED2011, TED, Talks, Iran, computers, government, nuclear energy, politics, science, technology, war, 2011

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