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Senior Defense official hedges on US involvement in Stuxnet
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| Last Edited | Penguin May 30, 2011 09:21pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 28, 2011 03:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If you want to see a top Pentagon official squirm, tune into CNBC’s cyberwar documentary Thursday night, and watch Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn face an uncomfortably direct question about the Stuxnet worm.
In CodeWars: America’s Cyber Threat, correspondent Melissa Lee asks Lynn outright: “Was the US involved in any way in the development of Stuxnet?”
Lynn’s response is long enough that an inattentive viewer might not notice that it doesn’t answer the question.
“The challenges of Stuxnet, as I said, what it shows you is the difficulty of any, any attribution and it’s something that we’re still looking at, it’s hard to get into any kind of comment on that until we’ve finished our examination,” Lynn replies.
“But sir, I’m not asking you if you think another country was involved,” Lee presses. “I’m asking you if the US was involved. If the Department of Defense was involved.”
“And this is not something that we’re going to be able to answer at this point,” Lynn finally says. |
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