I get the feeling we can judge the amount and timeline of investment by Western governments from these releases.
Like any other new capability /weapon these things will be used when they are ready (No president is likely to wait and see if bombing Iran works first)
So 2006 Bush gives the nod to ramp up the program, 2010 and stuxnet gets into the wild. Four years of development by serious people.
The md5 attack was made known in 2009 and now three years later a similar attack. We have reports of viable hardware attacks and fab-based alterations. So 2015 - the year a secure server gives up it's secrets via hardware ?
Like any other new capability /weapon these things will be used when they are ready (No president is likely to wait and see if bombing Iran works first)
So 2006 Bush gives the nod to ramp up the program, 2010 and stuxnet gets into the wild. Four years of development by serious people.
The md5 attack was made known in 2009 and now three years later a similar attack. We have reports of viable hardware attacks and fab-based alterations. So 2015 - the year a secure server gives up it's secrets via hardware ?