Stuxnet is now being attributed to the NSA.
And NSA doesn't need the internet ISP's because it's not just hacking the software.
This hardware works even when the computer is "turned off".
NY Times
DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
JAN. 14, 2014
N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
Quote:
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly
100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct
surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of
radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously
into the computers.
In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station
that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
<snip>
The N.S.A.'s efforts to reach computers unconnected to a network have relied
on a century-old technology updated for modern times: radio transmissions.
But the Iranians and others discovered some of those techniques years ago.
The hardware in the N.S.A.'s catalog was crucial in the cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities,
code-named Olympic Games, that began around 2008 and proceeded through the summer of 2010,
when a technical error revealed the attack software, later called Stuxnet.<snip>
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people may have been right all along.