Really really light shades. Destroying a country's ability to produce weapons grade nuclear fuel vs potentially burning down a hacker's/tinkerer's house; I don't think these are any where near the same level
It's very similar. It's a nation state using exploits to target individuals. It doesn't really matter why they're doing it, they're promulgating an unsafe environment, simply to create convenience for intelligence agencies.
As if they're at a lack of options when it comes to addressing problems on the world stage like this. Stuxnet was both an exceptionally morally lazy and destructive act.
As an American citizen, I genuinely wish my government did NOT do that.
Stuxnet was written to target a very specific bit of equipment for a nefarious purpose. This is just lazy development with no security or as a total after thought or worse deliberate weakening. This is just the state of software development/management we live in now. I really feel one of us have misreading of the situation.
> Stuxnet was written to target a very specific bit of equipment for a nefarious purpose
Except it didn't do that. It was found in dozens of networks in multiple countries. The vulnerabilities were discovered by other actors and used for other purposes.
The amount of collateral damage done here was far greater than the value of the initial operation. Importantly there were multiple different ways to achieve this particular outcome none of which required us to abuse vulnerabilities or release dangerous software to exploit them.
> This is just the state of software development/management we live in now.
Yes, and I think it's morally backwards, and I regret it.
> I really feel one of us have misreading of the situation.
I simply refuse to accept the intelligence agency marketing view of this action. It was incorrect. There were other less morally conflicted ways to solve this "problem."
Citation needed. Even at 100% duty cycle the heated bed tops out at a stable, safe temperature. I know because I’ve struggled to keep it hot enough for certain materials.
Maybe you could argue that the hot end could be set to melt down, ignoring the built-in safety mechanisms, but thats a stretch for doing much more than breaking the printer due to the way it’s designed.
Regardless, if all of this still scares someone they can run it in local-only mode without internet access.
But if you have to go out of your way to create a fire hazard, that's a different situation than the Chinese government having the ability to remotely cause fires in homes in towns across America.
