Engineering...Beyond the Classroom

Stuxnet was designed for a specific purpose -of course it could be modified but there is no political or financial gain in doing so. Therefore I would say the threat to the majority of us "normal" users is practically non-existent.

Of course there is money to be made by spreading fear and this fear will in turn cause more fear which will eventually cause big corporations to splash the cash - Y2K jumps to mind, exactly how many planes fell out of the sky because of Y2K issues?

I just can't wait to run over to our IT group and get them all worked up because of this - the poor bastards will not be able to sleep for a month ("fortunately" for us our IT group is "in charge" of our automation, see http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/66669/Control-Systems-IT-OT)

Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. I'd welcome more reading on this if anyone who chimes in happens to have a link.