[OldEarlGray]

 [Stuxnet was an extremely targeted virus.  ]

^{Which of course is why...} 

^{"This attack from an unknown source but likely related to Stuxnet, disabled one of the lists and thereby interrupted an important source of information for power plants and factories.[24]"}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet}

^Oops.

^{And then there's the more general issue of the Stuxnet / Duqu / Flame methodology being reverse engineered and COPIED, presumably by some entity operating in a framework of governance that is not constrained by our specified pupose for American governance:}

^{"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men.".}

^{http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=59&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=to+secure+these+rights+governments+are+instituted+among+men}

[zeugma]

^{"This attack from an unknown source but likely related to Stuxnet, disabled one of the lists and thereby interrupted an important source of information for power plants and factories.[24]"}

Yup. sucks to be attacked by your own government. I expect such things will happen more in the future. Not much to be done about it though, because they are willing to use their guns, and we apparently aren't.