Kaspersky on DieHard4; ‘a shock - they opened Pandora’s Box for Stuxnet'

Baserk · May 4, 2014

Seriously.

“When I was watching the movie, I had to stop 20 minutes in. It was a shock for me.
I was keeping silent on cyberterrorism outside of government and thanks to Hollywood they gave out all these ideas – they opened Pandora’s Box for Stuxnet – so I said, what the **** is going on, what the hell are you talking about?
After 20 minutes I had to get a glass of whiskey and a cigarette,” he said. [...]
Speaking at his new office in west London, Kaspersky said that before the film, he had forbidden his staff and security researchers to discuss cyberterrorism with anyone other than governments - specifically excluding the media to avoid giving “bad guys” ideas, but now the cat was out of the bag.
“We came to ideas on these type of attacks years before it happened, and well before Stuxnet we were talking about attacks on critical infrastructure to governments,” explained Kaspersky.
“The next day after seeing Die Hard 4, I came to the office and said ‘guys, now we’re free to talk about cyberterrorism to anyone’.” [...]
“I’m afraid that Stuxnet and all these cyber weapons are a very bad innovation,” Kaspersky said, looking sombre.
“They can be easily copy-pasted; it’s easy to employ engineers, easy to develop very similar weapons, and there could be some very, very bad guys somewhere in mountains who have zero clue about the technology they have, but they can pay and employ people to create it.” link
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Yup, Hollywood to blame for Stuxnet, 'guys in mountains' copy/pasting stuff thus bigger budgets needed by govs.
And those budgets are probably best spend at his 'Not-going-IPO-fool-you-twice' outfit...

Minimalist · May 4, 2014

The film opened Pandora's box? Like they would never figure it out alone I agree with him about cyber attack though... It will probably happen sooner or later. Right after that we will probably lose free and open internet.

BoerenkoolMetWorst · May 7, 2014

Wow, fail for Kaspersky..
Btw, if I thought only governments and security researches know about it, how does he figure Hollywood came with the idea?

noone_particular · May 7, 2014

I can't tell if he thinks that his group and governments are that smart or if everyone else is that stupid. This guy needs a serious dose of reality to bring him down to size.

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