World War 3.0
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.
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- Linda Robinsonon TMDB · Jul 201610/10
Stuxnet was malware that flashed around the world via Microsoft computers, triggering arbitrary BSODs and random reboots. In 2010 cybersecurity firms captured and began analyzing the worm. Stuxnet (name derived from merging two random lines in the code) had digital certificates. Digital certificates require biometrics (human identification) and pass codes. But Stuxnet could attain access without that. It ominously coded multiple zero days exploit. Symantec's investigators see maybe one a year, looking at thousands of lines of code. Stuxnet had four. As we learn in the documentary, it also had undoubtedly stolen product identity codes for PLCs (programmable logic controls) from Siemens. Where were these PLCs? Installed on centrifuges at Natanz, an Iranian nuclear site. And the game's afoot. Whose program? To what purpose? Gibney does an excellent job of gearing us up for the technowizardry with hunter/seekers Eric Chien and Liam O'Munchu (Symantec) as geek guides to the nation-state business of cyber espionage and, as General Michael Hayden, former CIA and NSA director calls it, the "hideously classified" world of cyber weaponry. We meet the journalists, bench players and sideline g
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Cast
- Yossi MelmanSelf
- Ralph LangnerSelf
- Emad KiyaeiSelf
- Richard A. ClarkeSelf
- Eric ChienSelf
- Liam O'MurchuSelf
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- Hillary ClintonSelf (archive footage)
- Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
- Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
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- Alex GibneyDirector
- Alex GibneyWriter
- Antonio RossiDirector of Photography
- Avner ShahafDirector of Photography
- Brett WileyDirector of Photography
- Will BatesOriginal Music Composer
- Andy GrieveEditor
- Hannah VanderlanEditor
- Alex GibneyProducer
- Olga KuchmenkoProducer
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