Details continue to pour in about the Obama Administration’s decision to authorize a hostile computer hacking campaign against Iran, one of the first decisions he made upon taking office.
The most public of the attacks, Stuxnet, which was also an embarrassment since it quickly spread beyond the Iranian nuclear program and started attacking industrial computers across the planet, was created by the CIA, with the help of the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.
Israeli experts were also involved in the creation of the Stuxnet worm, and while this fact has been floating around over a year, officials are just now getting around to confirming it.
US officials have defended the move, saying they believed it was a “preferable alternative to airstrikes,” but the enormous damage such viruses have caused when they inevitably move beyond the target and start attacking computers worldwide suggest it isn’t exactly a panacea either.
Despite the damage of the Stuxnet fiasco, the Obama Administration has continued the program. Though it has yet to be confirmed, it is widely believed that the Flame Virus, an advanced surveillance program, is also a product of this scheme.
Given the fact that Stuxnet attacks industrial controllers those who designed and deployed it should be held criminally responsible. I am sure if a third world country had done something similar they would be severely punished with sanctions and boycotts if not an outright military action. What if these worms mutate and start attacking our own industrial controllers? What if Iran makes something similar and deploys it on US and Israel? Wouldn't that be considered an act of war?
if you want a more detailed techie explanation of what exactly it is and does.
and a file to check for and remove it.
http://labs.bitdefender.com/2012/05/cyber-espiona…
p.s. on a positive note at least we can be sure there will be absolutely no unforeseen consequence to releasing the most sophisticated computer virus ever, no sir, none at all..
Clearly acts of war by Obammie who in the bizzarro world we live in is the Nobel Prize Peace president.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Iran would have done this to the Isralie or Amerikan governments?
There is no doubt that these are criminal governments and your tax money funds these crimes. Remember that everytime you cash your pay checks and you see how much they have stolen from you and remember that on April 15.
This is not much different than engineering a new smallpox and releasing it into the population. Iranian computers aren't separated from the rest of the world by some magic wall.
And it's hard to see what Iran- or any other country- might be able to do to get the United States to stop.
End enrichment? Forget it: what Iran actually has to do is stop being any kind of remote and distant threat to Israel. That means no nuclear power, no physics in high school, no ballistic missiles (heaven forbid!), no defense of any kind, and it would help if the country converted to Judaism en mass. But it's not possible to be sure that all of that would be enough- in fact, it's pretty sure that it would not.
Short of that there is no negotiation, not agreement, and no end to the war. Much as Rome could not tolerate the existence of Carthage, in spite of the absence of any genuine strategic issues between the two countries, Israel cannot tolerate the existence of Iran.
The only end to this dispute is when Iran is ploughed over and sowed with salt.
Iran delenda est.
Quote"The only end to this dispute is when Iran is ploughed over and sowed with salt.
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And that will never happen..
Actually, there is another end to this dispute, and five-thousand years of historical precedent: The Zionists/Israelis overplay their hand and end up conquered and subdued.
I believe upon taking office he promised that unlike Bush he would negotiate with Iran. Well, perhaps computer hacking and syber terrorism is America’s way of negotiating.
The US has made a big mistake and is now wide open for retaliation by other cyber terrorists whom it cannot blame, as what’s good for the geese is good for the gander.
Surely no military in the world could compete with the American military strength, but not so in cyber terrorism. Some hackers could design real dangerous viruses and attack the US computers. They could even do this by travelling to a third country so that no one could track who’s done it.
The US will not be in a position to pin it on any country because many of them have been messed up by the US one way or another, and have grudges to settle in some way. The US has started a war in which it will suffer tremendously.
Pretty much everything Obama said in the 2008 campaign was a lie.
Pretty much everything Obama will say in the 2012 campaign will be a lie
Protect Democracy … don't vote for liars. You are surrendering the power of the people to the liars when you vote for them.
US considers cyber attacks to be acts of war.
US sends cyber virus into Iran.
US is guilty of attacking Iran.
US brushes it off as 'well at least we didn't bomb them'.
World Opinion = WTF?
Just another criminal act of war from the Nobel Peace Prize President, a serial mass murderer who would be prosecuted and locked up, if we lived in a sane world.
Stuxnet is proof of US subservience to Israel. We hear the Idaho spying facility is actually run by Israeli intelligence.
shameless act of war and if Iran retaliates in kind, an excuse to drop the Big Ones.
The US has broken most of the Algiers Accord with Iran. Iran is now in a position to declare war if it so desired and would be justified in doing so.
The photo is perfect. He's like Erkel saying his catchphrase "Did I do that?"
Sneaky a-hole.
The Hydra has many heads.
Isn't this an act of war?
Power to kill — “Master the possibilities”
So, now it is Empire legal for our President to kill patients on computerized life-support systems, kill pedestrians crossing intersections with computer controlled stop-go lights, kill little babies in computer controlled jet airliners flying between computerized airports. I mean, stupidity knows no equal when your power to kill knows no limit.
Your present Leader is a war criminal like his predecessors,and it is a pity he has some african blood coursing through him.
Why just the African blood?
the "african blood" that is of any concern is not the blood in his veins but the blood dripping from his hands