“There’s a new good guy/bad guy question here that puts us potentially in a very difficult position,” Eric Chien said in 2012 after their analysis of Stuxnet was done. Their work on Stuxnet had been unmarred and unimpeded by political influences, and he hoped to never be in a position where they were forced to choose between customers and the interests of national security. But he wasn’t so naïve to think that it would never come to that. “It sounds a little cheesy, but we’re just trying to help people and do what’s right,” he says. “If we get to a point where we have to ask that question,
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