Zero Days Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Stuxnet Virus Documentary HD
Updated: July 8, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT - by Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. Similarly, all around us, just out of plain sight, secret cyber warfare is raging every day, and this murky world is brought to light in Alex Gibney's chilling documentary Zero Days.
A dizzying compendium of political and nuclear history, modern-day politics, computer-science facts, and righteous outrage, this thoroughly researched film is designed to spur a public outcry. Few will emerge from its story of intelligence tradecraft and egregious lapses in oversight without feeling seriously freaked out.
"The worm is loose!" former CIA director Michael Hayden says playfully at one point in Zero Days. Ha ha.
The nominal subject here is Stuxnet, a malicious computer virus that incapacitated Iran's nuclear centrifuges in 2009 and 2010, and that has since spread to computer systems in several other countries.
Doggedly reporting how and why the virus was created, Gibney tracks down Eric Chien and Liam O'Murchu, the heroic young cyber sleuths at Symantec who were chiefly responsible for identifying the code and following its bread crumb trail to the United States and Israel.