This report about F16, a piece of software from the mid-2000s that has only been discovered and understood now, is one of the craziest hacking stories I've heard in some time. Apparently, the point wasn't to sabotage the machines Iran used to build nuclear weapons but instead just the data that the scientists looked at. It was a way of hacking beliefs and confidence and throwing the researchers down the wrong paths.
#technews #fast16 #cybersecurity
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Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic, author of the best-selling book “The Running Ground,” and host of the The Most Interesting Thing in Tech video series and Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. He was previously the editor-in-chief of WIRED and the editor of NewYorker.com. A competitive runner, Nicholas is an American age-group record holder in the 50k run.
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#technews #fast16 #cybersecurity
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Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic, author of the best-selling book “The Running Ground,” and host of the The Most Interesting Thing in Tech video series and Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. He was previously the editor-in-chief of WIRED and the editor of NewYorker.com. A competitive runner, Nicholas is an American age-group record holder in the 50k run.
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