
Ep 29: Stuxnet
Darknet Diaries
The Two Thousand and Seven Version of the Sticked's Net
Stuck's net was designed to close valves, exit valves on the centrifuges. The way th i works is that gas pumps into the centrifuses and then a rich guranium goes out through a pipe with a valve in it. So what stucks in it did was inclose the valves on exit pipes so that the gas would go into the centrifuge but it couldn't get out. And the result then was that the pressure inside the centrifuge increased until it damaged the centfuge. During one test, the gas built up so much pressure that it caused the centrfuge to wobble chaotically and break apart into pieces.
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