And at the time the city that was still partially in ruin. Some of the famous monuments were in rubble. During that day, i was followed by the secret police. I just want to give you a quick indication what the times were like back then. Heres a bread store in east berlin in 1988. A long line of people trying to get bread. Still more damage on the building. A lot of Better Things that extra workers could have done with their time. They thought it was good idea to follow me around on this august day in 1988, and this is me taking notes on the streets. They took secret photos of me and they followed me around, minutebyminute, trying to assess what i was up to during the day. If you go forward a little bit, this year is the schedule the outline of a 60page file just for that day, and heres what it says, for example. At 8 00, the observation has begun. 8 53. I left the hotel and pkw, an automobile, with the i was traveling in style. 8 55 i arrived at the opera. Then going to the antic quits
The senate. I congratulate him on his comparable career in the i wish him the very best. Senate incomparable career in the senate. I wish him the very best. I would like to say two other words here. I want to make sure there is a separate place in the record for what i am going to say. I ask consent for that to be the case. Without objection. It is said that you dont chose your family and that is true. We are born into our family and we have no way to determine the family we are born into. Jay rockfeller chose to make the people of this area his community. How did that happen . Born in new york to one of the most famous people like this end up in West Virginia. I was an undergradate student at harvard and he decided he didnt like things they were doing so he left and dropped out of school. He went to japan and spent three years there. He became an interpreter and knows the japanese language well and loves the japanese people today. He started out at harvard and came back and was there
The book is called countdown to zeo day stuxnet and the launch of the worlds First Digital weapon. The author, wired magazine reporter kim zetter. Ms. Zetter, what is or what was stuxnet . Guest stuxnet was a virus worm that was used to attack Irans Nuclear plant in at tans, is and so the work was designed to manipulate the computers that control the centrifuges and speed them up and slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also do some wear and tear on the centrifuges and destroy them. Host what was unique about stuxnet . Guest stuxnet was really sophisticated. Its, first of all, i guess the most unique thing was this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something n. The past weve seen malware that steals passwords, credit card numbers, things like that, but wed never seen something that was designed to physically destroy, essentially, leap out of the Digital World into the physical realm and have some kind of kinetic activity. That was the
Attack irani and uranium enrichment plants. It was designed to speed them up or slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment. Host what was unique about stuxnet . Guest it was very sophisticated. A virus designed to physically destroy something other than that it was very sophisticated, designed to increase and slow the speed of centrifuges but it also did this remarkable trick to make the operators of the plan think that the operations were perfectly normal. So that was something remarkable about it. One more thing was that stuxnet used what is called a zero day something unknown to the Software Vendor therefore no patch exists and are timeconsuming and expensive to find the vulnerability. Generally we see one zero day in an attack. In this we saw five. Host where and how was it developed . Guest we believe here and israel. This was a process that took a number of years to develop there were multiple teams working on it. We had to have several several teams worki
Connection with computers were infected meaning that they didnt need to work from outside to get into. Maybe the first version of stuxnet was planted there and maybe they lost that access in subsequent versions and the maven the reason why they had to add zero days to spread. Host kim zetter has been with wired magazine since 2003. Prior to that, pc world. Ms. Zetter, are you a techy . Guest no. Know i get into tech journalism journalism, not by choice. And then found i really loved it. I dont particularly like gadgets in particular or computers in the sense of taking them apart and programming things like that i love the issues around computers. Issues around cybersecurity and privacy issues and civil liberties, those are the things that attracted. Host what was it about stuxnet the passage enough to write about . Guest it was multifaceted. It wasnt a simple worm and it wasnt a simple attack and was unlike anything weve seen before. It was just multiple ways of approaching this story