Re: cyberweaponry

On May 31, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Ross McKay wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:21:07 -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > >> [...] >> I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that >> the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua >> (http://www.lua.org/). > > That's surprising... I'm intrigued, can you supply a link? No, there was no link. If I remember correctly, it was an interview done on Fox News. >> He said that this was unusual because typically such viruses are >> written in languages like Ruby-on-Rails and such. > > Um, really? I very much doubt that. AFAIK, most true viruses are written > in a compiled language, and many trojans as well. RoR websites would > definitely be a vulnerability target though... Yeah, that's what I thought, but this guy was held out to be one of the foremost experts on cyber-warfare. So, I listened and asked. Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd.sperling@gmail.com http://sperling.com