Category File
Industrial Sabotage
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- StuxnetStuxnet was malware built to damage machinery rather than steal from it, and it is the most misdescribed piece of code in modern security writing. It carried two different attacks on two different controllers, years apart; the sensor-replay trick everyone repeats belonged to only one of them. The centrifuge damage figure is an inference from IAEA cascade counts, published under a title that was a question. No government has ever acknowledged building it.
- Diesel Engine SabotageAn industrial-era theory claiming that oil and gasoline interests targeted inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs connected to highly efficient diesel technology in order to keep transportation dependent on petroleum retail networks. In its classic form, the theory centers on Rudolf Diesel’s 1913 disappearance and later expands into a broader belief that efficient diesel passenger-car development was repeatedly suppressed to preserve the dominance of gasoline.