25 Years of Digital Vandalism, by William #Gibson - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion/27Gibson.html
as more details emerged, it began to look less like something new and more like a piece of hobbyist “street” technology, albeit one expensively optimized for a specific attack. The state actor — said to be Israel, perhaps working with the United States, though no one is sure — had simply built on the unpaid labor of generations of hobbyist vandals.