Development and testing of the Stuxnet worm

It's seemingly safe to believe that there is a very high probability that the US and Israel are behind Stuxnet.<p>According to Wikipedia, if this is true than 2010 had the first occurrence of cyber-warfare between nation states in our history.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet</a>

I haven't decided yet how to feel about Stuxnet. On one hand, good guys don't release viruses into the wild, <i>period</i>. On the other hand, only good has come from this. Iran doesn't get nukes until later and industry figures out that they need to lock down their machine controllers, without any real damage.

Stuxnet: forcing Israel haters everywhere to come sulking out of the woodwork.

Why is it so surprising/impressive that the worm was tested on centrifuges similar to those it was targeting? More than once, the article emphasizes that this is unusual and interesting...am I missing something?

You Americans don't get it. Israel and US murder our scientists. They try to stop our progress towards nuclear energy. They put sanction on us so we can't buy things like air planes and our planes are old and they crash and people die. ... All because of what? Because they believe we want to build stupid nuclear bomb -which we don't- and they have no evidence of it. So we stay in a war. Peace is never going to become a reality. And It's Americans fault.

This story would be more interesting if Microsoft and/or Siemens actually helped develop this malware.

the net positive is that cyber-security is brought to the forefront for the US gov, more importantly this will be a great movie staring colin farrell as an Israeli ruby developer that came up with the plan

I probably shouldn't be surprised by willful ignorance anymore, but it amazes me that everybody in the article can celebrate this achievement and at the same time admit that it's just "pushing back the clock." Israel's still going to get hit by a nuclear weapon some time, because the technology to build one is just going to keep getting cheaper and more accessible.