Posted on 01/16/2011 5:09:42 AM PST by nuconvert
WASHINGTON -- Israel has tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon, The New York Times reported Saturday.
In what the Times described as a joint Israeli-U.S. effort to undermine Iran's nuclear ambitions, it said the tests of the destructive Stuxnet worm had occurred over the past two years at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert.
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NYT. All the news that’s fit to undermine the US and the West.
Remember "Dr. Strangelove"? The Russians had a Doomesday Machine but they kept it secret. During "negotiations" it was pointed out to them that a Doomesday Machine only works as a deterent if you tell the other guys about it.
With our side having all the smartest computer guys in the world (for the foreseeable future) this new class of computer viruses will serve us well. What we need to do is stay ahead of everybody else!
I agree in part with your premise, but we are dealing here with the Iranians. They are unlikely to be deterred by knowledge of our capabilities. Further, I don’t think the NYT thought they were helping the US and Israel by printing this.
If the NYT thought that publishing this would have advanced the interests of the U.S. and Israel, it would have spiked the story.
“If the NYT thought that publishing this would have advanced the interests of the U.S. and Israel, it would have spiked the story.”
I absolutely agree.
Just how cool is THAT?
Is there anyone out there who actually didnt think Israel had something to do with this? Good for them, thats a nation that takes every effort to defend itself. When you are dealing with Militant Jihadists the best defense is a good offense.
Who needs Wikileaks when we have the new york times?
This is all great, but I think it is important to recognize that it was folly to bet our national security on this working the first time, and it would be extremely foolish to bet that it will work again. All this can do is buy time, and I hope that folks who have to worry about what we do are sweating bullets knowing they only have a couple of years now and better start dealing with the threat NOW!
Thanks for the ping.
Anyone who may be perceived to have the skills to have been involved with Stuxnet, but was not, and who may be accused of it will not comment.
Anyone who is taking about Stuxnet had nothing to do with it, and probably lacks the skills to have been involved.
You have to love it when a plan comes together.
Oh, yeah. "He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know." We may find out the truth about this one on the same time schedule we saw for Enigma, and for the same reasons. And maybe not even then.
All your computers are belong to us.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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3001, the last in the 2001 Space Odyssey series, was a rather disappointing book. But it did introduce a concept of a virus as a sort of weapon of mass destruction. One particularly nasty one was used to destroy the monolith, and then was packed back into a vault on the Moon along with various biological and nuclear weapons.
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