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Alex Gibney on Stuxnet and why we need to talk about cyberwar
It's been six years since we discovered Stuxnet, the worm that infected Windows PCs worldwide and was eventually traced to the United States and Israel as a way to attack Iran's nuclear program. It was the first time a cyberweapon was used to attack a physical location (it disabled uranium enriching centrifuges by causing them to spin out of control), and it sparked the use of cyberattacks from governments all over the world, including Russia, Iran and North Korea. Alex Gibney, the acclaimed documentarian behind films like Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and the recent Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, decided to dive into Stuxnet's legacy with his latest film, Zero Days. I sat down to chat with him about the film, together with Symantec researchers Eric Chien and Liam O'Murchu.
