US Helped Develop Stuxnet Computer Worm
US, Israeli Forces Tested Worm at Dimona
A new article in the New York Times detailing the damage done to Iran’s civilian nuclear program by the Stuxnet computer worm not only confirms Israel’s role in the development, but adds that the US played a role in its development and testing.
Though officials have declind to confirm this directly, the article describes Stuxnet as a “joint American and Israeli effort” and details its testing at Israel’s Dimona site, where they use “virtually identical” centrifuges in the creation of their own massive nuclear arsenal.
Stuxnet infects Windows-based computers and targets Siemens’ Step 7 industrial devices. They did massive damage to Iran’s centrifuges, as well as their nuclear energy plant, prompting Russian concerns that the worm could cause an “Iranian Chernobyl.”
In addition to damaging Iran’s program, the worm has gone into the wild and infected tens of thousands of computers world-wide, including thousands of computers in the United States. The confirmation of the US role in its development could potentially create a liability problem for the administration, as they would be directly responsible for the damage done to so many systems.
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Canuck
January 16th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
State sponsored terrorism.
John_Mohammad
January 16th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Okay, so when this gets bad enough to cause a reactor meltdown and a Middle Eastern-style Chernobyl (with the 'collateral damage' of radiation all over the place, of course), guess who gets the finger pointed at them? Iran? Guess again: Israel, and by virtue of guilt by association, the US. We know the chaos that can be created with this sort of mischief, and I really don't think nuclear power is something we ought to be casually screwing up. At this point, if I were Iran I'd be ramping up production of nuclear powerplants- and weapons- because it's clear that the US/Israel "axis-of-self-righteousness" is hell-bent to destroy them in the name of Empire. Do I want to see Americans- or anyone, for that matter- killed over this? Of course not… but it won't surprise me when it happens, and on American streets when Iran (and everybody else we've crossed) has had enough of our government's meddling and underhanded shenanigans.
thedissenter
January 17th, 2011 at 4:55 am
Well…duh! Who in the world didn't know that the United States of Israel was behind it? Let's just hope now that the Karma they put out comes back to bite them in the ass twofold and that either somebody corrupts their own systems or the virus spreads and they both get fucked at once just the way they planned to fuck Iran.
blowback
January 17th, 2011 at 5:35 am
If only the Iranians had used Linux!
So far, this is all conjecture, there has been no word from the Iranians about the extent of the damage and we are never likely to hear it from them as that would be giving the Zionists too much information. Just think back to the Syrian response to the Israeli "attack" on an alleged nuclear reactor.
As for the IAEA, that somewhat unsurprisingly has been silent now that Olli Heinonen has left although I am sure that Washington still has spies at work there.
curmudgeonvt
January 17th, 2011 at 6:28 am
And that would provide the opening to "protect the American people" from the baddies out there in the Internet tubes…Presto – Changeo – the Internet is now openly controlled by the USG.
Generalissimo X
January 17th, 2011 at 8:16 am
no sh*t..this was on wayne madsden and other alt sites months ago. in other news, mossad engineered 9-11 and other false flags. tells us something we don't know….
wadosy
January 17th, 2011 at 8:29 am
caroline glick tries to establish a nuke weapons link between iran and north korea.
according to the new york times, our nuclear forensic capability is deteriorating, so we'd be unable to tell where the bombs came from after a nuke terror attack.
according to the new york times, israel duplicates iranian refining techniques… just in case, i guess.
in case of what?!?!!… you idiot!
theothercanada
January 17th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Benevolent, humanitarian and let us not forget state sponsored democratic terrorism in action.
How do you say empathy in American?
TIA
John_Mohammad
January 17th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
wadosy – bingo… Why would Israel want to duplicate Iranian nuke technology? Certainly not JUST to test the Stuxnet virus (which could just as easily easily have been done on a computer model of the Iranian system). Nope, the answer is: to create a nuclear device that would have all the manufacturing and nuclear signature characteristics of an Iranian-built nuclear weapon. And for what purpose? Gee, with Israel's well-known history of false-flag operations, it doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to figure out why. Hey America, want a reason to attack Iran? [insert mushroom cloud over any US city]; Who could have done such a thing? [insert Israel immediately pointing fingers at Iran]; You think Israel won't do something like that? I direct your attention to the USS Liberty. And that's just one we KNOW about.