o murchu's job was to try and unlock its secrets and assess the threat for symantec's clients by figuringut what the malicious software was engineered to do and who was behind it. how long was the stuxnet code? >> you're talking tens of thousands of lines of code, a very, very long project, very well written, very professionally written, and very difficult to analyze. >> unlike the millions of worms and viruses that turn up on the internet every year, this one was not trying to steal passwords, identities, or money. stuxnet appeared to be crawling around the world, computer by computer, looking for some sort of industrial operation that was using a specific piece of equipment, a siemens s7-300 programmable logic controller. >> this gray box here is essentially what runs factory floors. and you program this box to control your equipment. and you say, "turn on the conveyor belt. turn on the heater. turn on the cooler. shut the plant down." it's all contained in that box. and that's what stuxnet was looking for. it wanted to get its malicious code onto that box. >> the programmable logic con

american company has been ordered by a french court to reveal personal data of users placing and to symantec messages arches maria for national examines the case to see if the concept of free speech is should have different boundaries in different countries. two democracies stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given the word the french word as we wired to do that the question is how can the french and force this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris court in october they wanted to stop away with and to semitic messages posted under the hashtag on both a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject at the time the number of insulting jokes reached thousands but these people all of whom had at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible people at home. we don't want to prosecu

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. >> at symantec, the company that makes norton anti-virus software, engineers have been tracking confickere globe. >> this map is showing a visual representation of where all of the known infections of conficker are across the world. >> this is conficker. >> vice president steve trilling says the worm is now living on millions of computers, mainly in corporations. so far, the bad guys who created it haven't triggered conficker. it's just sitting out there like a sleeper cell. >> imagine a network of spies that has infiltrated a country, and every day, all of the spies are calling in for their instructions on what to do next. >> what's the worm being asked to do? >> that's the interesting thing. the only thing the worm is being asked to do is to ask for further instructions. >> so we're talking several months? >> that's right. >> several months, it's just been sitting there. >> that's exactly right. >> i don't know. i'm hearing jaws music. it's that ominous, because once the hackers issue instructions, conficker could turn menacing in an instant. with one click, the worm's creator can instr