"A story in Bloomberg Businessweek gives the first in-depth look at a wave of new start-ups selling cyber weaponry"

And yet in the opening para we have some guy in a ski mask breaking into some offices. This, another article from the school of bad fiction and total cyberbullshit

'Customers have shown that, so far, they have been willing to suffer through a poor user experience in order to enjoy the benefits Facebook provides'

What customers, it's a free service, paid for through advertising !!!!

> The sketches featuring boxes labeled PDP-11 and pointers to "The Ether" would eventually be translated into a big-time business for 3Com, Digital Equipment Corp, and now, just about anybody in the computer, telecom and networking businesses ..

How did this happen without patent protection for "The Ether"?

And the solution is .. go directly to the Download site ...

"British consumers will have to pay far more than their U.S. counterparts for Apple's latest must-have gadget, the iPad.
Apple has announced that the starting price in the UK will be £429 for the 16GB model with a wi-fi link to the internet - around 25 per cent more than in America. The equivalent price for the same device there is around £340 .. In an effort to explain the price difference between America and Britain, Apple pointed to the fact that there are different, and higher, taxes in Europe, as well as higher transport and other costs" .. link

"perceived sleights turned into byzantine obsession is a sign of a person who will do nothing but bring grief to anyone who ever touches his or her life"

Have you never see the Cable Guy or One Hour Photo. I guess the lesson to be learned here is don't piss off technical support .. :)

"Up until his termination in June of 2010, Ardolf worked at Medtronic as a neuromodulation device repair technician" link

How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History link

"Months earlier, in June 2009, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran with just one aim"

Is there some kind of directive in place that doesn't allow for the mention of MIcrosoft Windows and who in their right mind would be using Windows to control hardware? And that entire report coming from the style of bad journalism, ie. a very bad imitation of Tom Wolf.

"In this case, the exploit allowed the virus to cleverly spread from one computer to another via infected USB sticks. The vulnerability was in the LNK file of Windows Explorer"

Finally, we get to a mention of Windows and what's a browser even doing on a 'computer' controlling a centrefuge? So to recapp, Insert USB device->Windows attempts to to open an icon from a LNK shortcut, the loads a malicious DLL into memory, the DLL is in actuality a rootkit disguised as a digitally signed device driver that gets loaded and run with 'root' privileges, the perps now have full control of your 'computer'.

"When an infected USB stick was inserted into a computer, as Explorer automatically scanned the contents of the stick, the exploit code awakened and surreptitiously dropped a large, partially encrypted file onto the computer, like a military transport plane dropping camouflaged soldiers into target territory"

Ohh for fucks sake !!!