Pure Haldeman

We will in due time have more "Why and Wherefore;" however, today it was preempted by my read of Paul Greenberg's column, Glow, Little Glow Worm, Glow (one source being http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg122810.php3). Our immediate reaction was, "That's pure Haldeman!" As in Joe Haldeman, possibly my favorite living science fiction writer who, in his Worlds trilogy, described a devastating cyber attack by baddies against the computer systems upon which the goodies were dependent. (Question: Does that precis qualify as the most brutal plot distillation in history or what?) Our second reaction was mixed: Should we be glad that the story is flying under the radar, or annoyed at yet another example of the mal (or is it non?) feasance of the selective sycophants who now pass for media? Then I actually thought about it.

The column claims that the Iranian nuclear program has been stopped dead in its tracks by Stuxnet, a diabolical digital worm that eats centrifuges. Ladies and gentlemen, it's over, to the degree that the internet is "it." If unstoppable centrifuge-eating technology exists, how is it possible that unstoppable mass storage (as in server farm) eating technology (MSET) does not? First reaction might be DVDs of anything important. Great idea, unless the MSET worm, like Stuxnet, was launched some time prior to activation, to contaminate as many systems as possible undetected. And that, therefore, every DVD burned for the last what -- one year? two years? since yesterday? -- contains the evil code.

Think paper...

Tell me why I'm wrong. Please.