Bobby Tables
Exactly, and it's frankly irresponsible of El Reg and the authors of this work to present this in this fashion, because when The Great Unwashed get hold of the story they will not apply the reasoning that Commentards can.
Its difficult enough already to get IT-illiterate bureaucrats to accept information from plain HTML webpages used in the way that Tim Berners-Lee intended; they demand it "as an email attachment", which is of course less secure.
I don't know anything about Stuxnet, but presumably it was programmed to recognise the characteristics ("hostname") of the Iranian equipment. The malware was in the code that did that recognition (and of course the security holes in the equipment), not in the "hostname" itself.
OK Bobby Tables shouldn't have had punctuation in his name, but we have no idea what stray "punctuation" there might be in DNA.
It does make me wonder, though, whether we might have a sample of Putin's DNA and could manufacture a drug (using the technology that gave us Covid vaccines) that would target him specifically.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
