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When it began to actually execute its payload
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Zero Days

When it began to actuallyexecute its payload, you would have a whole bunch of centrifuges...

When it began to actually
execute its payload, you would have a whole bunch of centrifuges in a huge array of cascades
sitting in a big hall

Full Transcript

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When it began to actually execute its payload,
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you would have a whole bunch of centrifuges
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in a huge array of cascades sitting in a big hall.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
01:08:39
Uploaded
Nov 01, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
And then just off that hall - Zero Days 00:09
And then just off that hall
Computers monitor the activities - Zero Days 00:06
Computers monitor the activities
So a centrifuge, it's driven by an electrical motor. - Zero Days 00:06
So a centrifuge, it's driven by an electrical motor.
And the speed of this electrical motor - Zero Days 00:10
And the speed of this electrical motor
Chien: Stuxnet would wait for 13 days - Zero Days 00:14
Chien: Stuxnet would wait for 13 days
They didn't want to attack when the centrifuges essentially - Zero Days 00:07
They didn't want to attack when the centrifuges essenti...
What Stuxnet did was it actually would sit there - Zero Days 00:11
What Stuxnet did was it actually would sit there
And once they saw them spinning for 13 days, - Zero Days 00:06
And once they saw them spinning for 13 days,
Centrifuges spin at incredible speeds, - Zero Days 00:06
Centrifuges spin at incredible speeds,
Langner: They have a safe operating speed, - Zero Days 00:07
Langner: They have a safe operating speed,
Chien: Stuxnet caused the uranium enrichment centrifuges - Zero Days 00:07
Chien: Stuxnet caused the uranium enrichment centrifuges
What would happen was those centrifuges - Zero Days 00:07
What would happen was those centrifuges
It would go through a frequency at which the metal would - Zero Days 00:07
It would go through a frequency at which the metal would
And then the second attack they attempted - Zero Days 00:06
And then the second attack they attempted
They were slowed down to almost standstill. - Zero Days 00:06
They were slowed down to almost standstill.
You can imagine a toy top that you spin - Zero Days 00:07
You can imagine a toy top that you spin
They'd begin to wobble and essentially shatter - Zero Days 00:05
They'd begin to wobble and essentially shatter
And instead of sending back to the computer - Zero Days 00:08
And instead of sending back to the computer
So the computer's sitting there thinking, - Zero Days 00:06
So the computer's sitting there thinking,
Running at 1,000 hertz, everything is fine." - Zero Days 00:08
Running at 1,000 hertz, everything is fine."