Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> One writer points out a list of mysteries about Stuxnet. Mystery #6 
> being "why would anyone be running Windows in a nuclear facility in the 
> first place?"

  If you need industrial-grade centrifuges, and the manufacturer of those
centrifuges only makes control software for Windows, what are you going to
do? Run it in Wine?

  I'm assuming that even if Windows crashes, that will not cause malfunction
on those centrifuges (or whatever else they are controlling from Windows).
The software probably has more like a setupping/monitoring functionality than
a more active role. Hopefully.

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                                                          - Warp

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