How to Keep a 25 Cent Computer Part from Destroying Your Life

Mark McWiggins Dec 22, 2024 … NOT copyrighted .. share widely.

Stuxnet was a project by the clandestine services of the U.S. Government that they deployed against Iran in 2007 to seriously delay their nuclear program.

There are other reports of the U.S. deploying such weapons against not only Iran, but Indonesia, India and Pakistan.

Unfortunately for the rest of the Western world, the story got out the following year and now bad actors also know that this is possible. Here are some already known “applications” of this technology by the U.S. government:

Made pagers explode in Lebanon earlier this year … used the same software to destroy various hardware including dams with a variant called “killer poke.”

What does this mean for you?

Everybody likes bargains. Say you’re at computer store and you see a display USB Sticks: normal price $32 for a ten pack, yours for only $10 … a a great deal, eh?

NO! This is the wrong penny to pinch. Any software that can make pagers explode and destroy dams is something that could also destroy you or your loved ones.

Bottom line: NEVER use a USB stick of ANY size unless you know it came directly from a previously unopened manufacturer’s packaging.

I presume the governement has systems in place to stop this from happening and I am going to send my elected representatives this article and ask them to post it in every computer store in America.

Mark McWiggins