Stuxnet did more damage than good
Planting malware in a commercial SCADA system might seem a major coup but the reality is that all it did was alert people to the need to actively manage sensitive systems. In essence it killed the market for a major Simens product and the Windows platform it ran on. Obviously the market wouldn't die overnight -- inertia, especially management inertia, is a powerful force -- but anyone who's designing a control system will think long and hard about what platform it runs on and what connectivity they'll give it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
