We learned today in The New York Times what had long been suspected: that Stuxnet, which caused Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges to grind to a halt, was made in the USA. Take Stuxnet, the worm directed against Iran in 2010 that ended up infecting computers around the world – including in the United States. In the age of cyberwarfare, blowback seems to be a paramount concern. The CIA has a term called "blowback" to describe when an operation against the enemy has unintended negative consequences for the U.S. Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, shown in this International Iran Photo Agency image from August 2010, was infected by the Stuxnet computer worm - which reportedly was created in the United States.
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