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by defrost 924 days ago
> plus stuxnet was designed to work

... its way towards ...

> a very specific environment (iran nuclear plant)

Stuxnet was a full stack of plugins (which lends huge weight toward the early "big team" design and build theories of first observers).

There was a payload intended for very specific centrifuges ... and there was replication toward target logic ( Farsi language | locale seeking targets for copying ) IIRC.

The "work" of Stuxnet wasn't limited to screwing up the centrifuges, it also had seeking and limited comms.