Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/17/2011 10:12:34 AM PST by Libloather
Stuxnet Worm Was Weapon, Report Says
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Jan 17, 2011 11:45 am
The Stuxnet worm that disrupted Iran's ability to enrich uranium into bomb-grade nuclear fuel was jointly created by Israel and the U.S., the New York Times said Saturday.
Citing confidential sources, the U.S. newspaper claimed that Israel's covert nuclear facility at Dimona was used to test the worm's effectiveness on centrifuges like the ones Iran employs at its Natanz complex, which has been plagued by technical problems.
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Langner, who has spent months pulling the worm apart, said earlier this week that Stuxnet was a natural weapon for opponents of Iran's nuclear program to unsheathe.
"If any target would justify a full-blown cyberwar strike for the first time in history, those centrifuges certainly would," Langner said Jan. 10 on his blog , where he has spelled out his findings and speculations. Langner believes that Stuxnet's creators had access to what he called a "mockup test system" to try out their worm on actual centrifuges.
Although Stuxnet has apparently not crippled Iran's nuclear program, it seems to have seriously hindered it, perhaps more than some have thought. Just last week, for example, the outgoing head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service said setbacks meant Iran wouldn't be able to create a bomb before 2015.
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Civility.
Bill Hemmer was handwringing on FoxNews this morning. ‘What will they respond with? We have computers too, ya know.’
Imagine Nelson from the Simpsona.
For Iran, ha, ha !
And Ammadnutjob, he needs rope around his neck !
...and then the young intern in the pentagon opened the email attachment promising a fortune from a Nigerian prince...
By an odd coincidence, the people from whom they’re spending billions to obtain reactor technology and even more billions to fix the stuff they have, the Russians, also happen to have a large and very lucrative custom virus and Trojan operation. Not that I would ever accuse the Russians of standing to make money off the situation, you understand.
Yeabut, all the BEST hackers and programmers are on OUR side of the hookah.
Besides, if you wanna stage an offensive, you’ve gotta get the ball, first, and Stuxnet has the Iranians stuck in the locker room. All their best players are working on sanitizing their systems of this worm; that leaves nobody available to mount an offensive.
I’m starting to wonder if Hemmer isn’t sharing a locker with Shemp Smith.
So, were all of these centrifuges somehow networked, or was the virus in the software for all of them from the beginning?
your right but assumptions make an ass of you and me blah blah blah.
Wasn’t there a thread over the weekend that quoted a Russian engineer as saying that Iran was headed toward a Chernobyl of its own?
May it rot out AhmANutJob’s little black book and crash everything it can in his entire turf.
You left the caption off your picture. “You know what this means? No size restrictions and screw the limit.”
> Wasn’t there a thread over the weekend that quoted a Russian engineer as saying that Iran was headed toward a Chernobyl of its own?
Russia warns of ‘Iranian Chernobyl’ (scientists providing technical assistance)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2658040/posts
Cool. Thanks!
Nope,
Iran needs to flip the switch and have their little nuke plant melt down.
Simple flip of a switch may put a smile on lots of folks faces.
Could you add me to your nuke ping list?
Thanks
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