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I thought the big thing was that flame found itself into a network locked out from the outside world. So the intrigue lies in how it made it into this network ?


I hadn't heard about that (so please excuse my ignorance), but surely it's just a case of somebody accidentally/intentionally bringing it in on removable storage, like a USB drive, and plugging it in.


yes, the article says that it will put itself onto USB sticks so that it can be transferred out of a walled garden, therefore it can enter the same way.


Not only duplicating itself but putting data from inside the airgapped network on to pen drives so it can escape. I guess the one is useless without the other but this somehow seems far more impressive.




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