The world is changing... Stuxnet

This morning I listened to Morning Edition in NPR and heard an interesting and scary story about Stuxnet... the malware that hit the Iranian nuclear facilities in 2009. Basically, this is a relatively new method of war-- deploy malware against your enemy so that you control their infrastructure.

This raises many new issues for students and teacher to contemplate and discuss-- humans ethics seem to have changed. While we may be able to disable enemy using non-lethal options, it seems as well that there is potential for extending lethal force to vast populations through indirect means. I wonder about the ethics of disabling the power grid in a country to prevent its military from functioning, but at the same time preventing its medical system from caring for ill civilians.