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This has almost no similarities to stuxnet. A more analogous hypothetical attack to stuxnet would be if they repeatedly cycled spinning rust drive heads in a certain way to cause the motors to fail and corrupt data, all the while faking the SMART data of the drive to not report drive head parking cycles.

Your understanding of either this attack and/or stuxnet is flawed.

Rspndplz.

Defute

They did.

Also if this counts as "Cause some crazy busllshit at a very small level, targetting specific people, such that I get the outcome I want!" then so does every vulnerability.

This is about measuring CPU frequency, where doing so definitely does not cause your computer to explode.

OR DOES IT???

Oh, it doesn’t? Carry on.

I’m quite fatigued by the recent (?) increase in comparisons of current vulnerabilities, attacks, and adversarial capabilities to Stuxnet and can’t help but tune out when it’s invoked. Yes, the ‘96 Bulls were the best team of all time. That has no bearing on how good the Bulls are now and sure as hell shouldn’t blind you to how good other teams have gotten since…

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