A friend shared today a post about an elegant worm, Stuxnet. While I am not a security researcher and cannot comment on the claims of elegance, I can delight to hear that others are evaluating their fields with aesthetics in mind. If the thought of an elegant virus bothers you, consider that I would also claim that there are beautiful swords and firearms.
The post begins: "Brilliance and elegance are powerful adjectives most often used to describe things of beauty -- people, places, and things. Works of art whether they are literary or visual; aural or editable often bear these designations but it is rare indeed when we see them used to describe malicious code & content..."
Edit: Since this post, I've been seeing many other places Stuxnet has been mentioned, including the NYTimes.
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