Galloism wrote:Sidesh0w B0b wrote:
Meanwhile... perhaps they hack into our electric grid and cause havoc, or something else. Why not think in terms of asymmetrical warfare if you're China? They know our archaic Spartan cliff strategy by now. Our prople know they aren't stupid but our leader, well, they see he's sort of nuts.
After that whole Iran incident that was totes-totally-didn't-do-honest where a random segment of code just happened to spin their centrifuges to death, I'm not sure China would want to play that game either.
However, this is the only attack we know of where a virus caused significant physical damage. Besides stuxnet, is there another example of hack-induced physical damage?