Posted on 12/15/2010 3:38:52 PM PST by MissesBush
Too bad it doesn’t set the back 900 years.
That extra two years may be enough if the best solution occurs: the Iranian people rise up and overthrow the islamics in power.
I'm not holding my breath but it's a possibility.
“Too bad it doesn’t set the back 900 years.” I want to set them back 1400 years and about 10 Israeli nukes would do it!
I don’t buy this for a minute. PLC’s can easily be replaced and reprogrammed. Unless the software commanded the machinery to destroy itself this is bad reporting...
While Islam sets them back 1000.
My understanding is that it did exactly that.
I also read in a previous article that a number of Iranian scientists who were unable to solve the production issues met with "untimely deaths" before the virus was known to be the cause of their issues.
In reality it could be more than two years. It will be very difficult to clean all the machines and all the PCs without them being reinfected. I would guess they are going to get reinfected many times along the way.
In the meantime here’s to reinfections, and here’s to many, many, MANY more dead Iranian nuclear scientists. Whoever’s picking them off, God Bless you, and keep it up, there’s plenty of other targets to keep going after. Big target rich environment over there. God bless you and happy hunting!!!!
Yes, it was damaging the machines, but making them appear to work normally.
“I fear however this is just kicking the can down the road.”
Trust me, this is one of many “worms” waiting to wake up. They, Iranians, and the rest, of the world, haven’t seen the end of this. This is the beginning, of the end. Don’t doubt me.
What's a little frightening is that I think this method of attack tends to level the playing field among nations. Even if the IDF and/or NSA were responsible for this, I think it could be easily used against the US as well.
What I understand is that the malware lies dormant and can be turned on and off. And then it infects the PC all over again.
You if you were on a contained network, you would have to wipe each and every operating system clean. And, still, install new—proven clean versions of the new operating system into the computers.
And this assumes that the malware came from “outside.” It might be possible that the malware is actually part of the operating system—written from the outside and brought in.
Consider that the virus is made of two programs and are just waiting to meet. Virus A came in on the machines that does task A. Virus B comes in on PC B. Alone they are benign. When the two systems meet—violins, flowers, and mayehm. And since the malware is PART of the clean OS, it will take a long time to figure out where part A and B are. And you have to rebuild the system every time you make a mistake.
Brilliant stuff....
That is GREAT news. Yet, are Iran’s computers even necessary? The US built both uranium and plutonium bombs 65 years ago, with ZERO computers!
Many suspected the Israelis, and this article goes a long way toward confirming that.
See also: Why Stuxnet is Scaring the Tech World Half to Death: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2600754/posts
Gawd I love the IDF!
Didn’t we use mainframe computers 65 years ago?
... and some others were simply bumped off in classic hits, like motorcycles passing by and attaching magnetic bombs to the outside of the cars nuke scientists were driving.
Their loss might cost a few more years than that.
“What’s a little frightening is that I think this method of attack tends to level the playing field among nations. Even if the IDF and/or NSA were responsible for this, I think it could be easily used against the US as well.”
Yes and no, we are light years ahead of everyone else. We have been sitting, on “Stuxnet,” for years biding our time. All other nations are aware and wondering when it will, not maybe, but when it will be their turn. They are scared sh!t less. Don’t doubt me.
Not quite. In the Manhattan Project, Computer was actually a job title. Eight hours in front of an adding machine.
Obama gotta be pissed, his plan to ensure the Iranians get nukes as soon as possible has been derailed.
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