Siemens pulls out of nuclear industry - Germany goes green - but is it really because of Stuxnet?

[Peter Lemkin]

Mebee....mebee not....Mebee it was need to know and they didn't need to know everything just their little bit. Mebee it was just some people in Siemens and this was not run by the board or the shareholders.

Well, I think it quite obvious, that if, as it seems, Semiens played a large role in the production and/or testing, they would therefore know that something like it [but different] was possible - to make their own reactors malfunction. Also obvious, was that only a trusted and spooky few would have been 'in' on the production and testing of such a virus!

A minor modification of such a cyberweapon would also work on military reactors; subs and ships run by reactors and even non-nuclear power plants and complex commercial chemical reactors. [as I understand it, the virus takes advantage of the complex nature of non-human computer-controlled complex processes - many of them are not nuclear - although nuclear ones may be the more complex]. I wouldn't be surprised that a minor modification could upset or make uncontrollable such things as complex chemical production processes, complex computer systems of all types, and airliner autopilot systems....likely much, much more! You can be sure the list of what it can be made to affect/infect is classified!