STUXNET: The World's First Digital Weapon

Stuxnet is considered to be the most sophisticated malware ever created. This is the story about how it was designed.

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Bebop Films
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Audio by:
Jeffiot

Edited by:
Jeffiot

Written by:
Jordan

Produced by:
Jordan
Jeffiot

Narrated by:
Jordan

[Red_Planet]

For those of you wondering, yes, the exploits are long patched. Your nuclear control systems at home are safe, don’t worry.

[keanenfulton]

I remember hearing about this when it was going down, it's honestly pretty scary to think that digital code can cause actual physical damage in the world around us. I can only imagine what kinds stuff we have now.

[TerminalApe]

to even conceptualize what coding that was involved in stux is enough to be considered a masterpiece

[Wnick]

Glad to see Disrupt still going strong and releasing high-quality bangers like this

[我的家-jb]

Loving these visuals. They really hit when the narration reaches critical or climactic points in the story. A mix of funny, datamoshing, and badass "hackerman" visuals and music.




Also that dancing guy walking up to the white house with the planes landing around and in front of him killed me. 10/10, would (and will) watch again.

[Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head]

Despite how serious it is, I couldn't help but crack up at 7:30 at the Spy from TF2 suddenly appearing XD

[rickydo]

Imagine creating something so sophisticated, effective and dangerous and not being able to tell anyone you were part of it.

On that note, imagine if Walter White was a software engineer instead of a chemist, I wanna watch THAT TV series alright.

[ansotheanso]

I really feel like your narration has improved over the last couple of videos. Well done!

[sbeverogers]

To be honest, you guys are really underrated!, You really deserve the audience!

[galactic-hamster]

4:50 my mom has a story about this- apparently she worked at a company who did a lot of business overseas, especially with the middle east. This is all post gulf-war, and pretty recently after too, so it got a little dodgy. The red flags were finally flown at full height when an ambassador from the state department came to give a presentation on terrorist trade groups and who not to trade with, which ended with a no trade list that looked suspiciously like their company's client list. She then said that one of the anecdotes that the guy mentioned was that one of the ground units over there had found an area of desert filled with thousands of washing machines, all of the same type, model and size- but they were missing their drums. All the same part from all the machines just dumped out there. Apparently it was then found out that those drums were used in the (still then HEAVILY sanctioned and VERY illegal) uranium enrichment centrifuges for the nuclear programs being run by the state over there, and the main reason to not do trade with any specific suspect groups over there. Once she found that out, she refused to put her signature on any papers going out there, and for damn good reason. (As far as I know, that company no longer exists for, I believe unrelated reason.)

Extra fun fact: apparently, (since this was pre-2001) one of the names on my mom's company's client list was none other than Osama Bin-Laden, who was running Al-Quaeda. When the towers got hit and the names were first being released, my mom and one of her old coworkers called each other up trying to remember if they did indeed at one point do business with them.The more you know.

[Rmx]

Still remember when the news broke, the scale of it was insane. Wonder how many similar softwares have been developed but not yet discovered..

Man that outro was a vibe.

[thenorthernphilosopher]

Dudes, you are on somewhat unachievable level of production. Brilliant masterpiece. I am shocked, bewildered and overwhelmed.

[CryptoTonight]

Crazy to think some person you meet at defcon could be a Stuxnet dev, you know they go there.

[xXDoUbLeDDXx]

His editing/visuals are out of this world. It makes the story feel so much more alive, I have no idea how he does it. Does he make all the images himself? Either way these videos are insanely impressive. Very fun to watch and very informative. 😊

[vnnyz]

i'm loving this animation style! the mix of collage, more cartoony 3D, manga panels, etc. make for a more interesting watch to me. :)

[piggyman]

this new video signals to me that you guys are back. legitimatly gives me the same feels it did about a year or go so, i wish you guys luck on recovering your momentum in the algorythm :D

[VELI-Productions]

I love your channel and your historical computer virus related videos. I just gotta say I noticed the narrative had a bit more focus this time around and it made things a lot easier to follow. Sometimes with past videos I am insanely entertained but a bit confused, this time around I don't really have any questions!

[miligrams]

Harvard students made a group project for their school and made a sophisticated geoguessr bot that beat RAINBOLT, one of the best geoguessr players in the world and has found many viral meme locations using the background. Just imagine what things could be getting created RIGHT NOW without anyone's knowledge.

[FrankZappa-izmp]

The love of rootkits has amplified. Current rootkits are so sophisticated they can control the news.

[DG-iwyw]

What is youtube if not a digital weapon. Its gone from illuminating and eductional to moving people on to less and less intellignet subjects in the past few years, it plays the long game