During the Iraq War, the neophyte cyber warriors fought well in locating insurgents’ networks. US defence production is closely allied with a host of defence contractors. The NSA claims to have tracked “threat signatures” and communicated them to defence contractors. The would-be cyber warriors have to run a gauntlet before being qualified to wear the cyberspace badge, a pair of silver wings crossed by a lightning bolt centred on a globe. We know Stuxnet crawled into Iranian nuclear systems and destroyed one-fifth of fast-spinning Iranian centrifuges.

Source: Libya Today February 16, 2021 18:11 UTC