Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft.
The Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has thus had an outsized influence on debates about cyber warfare, for visionaries and skeptics alike. This s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 834 - 874 |
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