Re: cyberweaponry

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On May 31, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Ross McKay wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:21:07 -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that 
>> the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua 
>> (http://www.lua.org/).
> 
> That's surprising... I'm intrigued, can you supply a link?

No, there was no link. If I remember correctly, it was an interview done on Fox News.


>> He said that this was unusual because typically such viruses are
>> written in languages like Ruby-on-Rails and such.
> 
> Um, really? I very much doubt that. AFAIK, most true viruses are written
> in a compiled language, and many trojans as well. RoR websites would
> definitely be a vulnerability target though...

Yeah, that's what I thought, but this guy was held out to be one of the foremost experts on cyber-warfare. So, I listened and asked.

Cheers,

tedd

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