Information continues to emerge on Israel’s cyberattack against Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, with experts saying that they believe it was an attack of similar complexity to the Stuxnet attack. The attack was a sabotage and caused an explosion.
Identified in 2010, the Stuxnet attack was a joint cyberattack against Iran’s industrial computers, developed by the United States and Israel jointly. The attack was said to have ruined about 20% of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.
The problem was that Stuxnet got out in the wild and started attacking industrial computers worldwide, doing substantial damage all over the place. The exploits used in that attack were quickly duplicated and led to a flurry of cyberattacks.
Israel seems fine with taking “credit” for the Natanz attack, but so far, all that’s known is the report of some damage to Iran’s nuclear site, and we don’t know what spillover effects will come from this latest attack.
“The problem was that Stuxnet got out in the wild and started attacking industrial computers worldwide”
No. The problem is that a continuing series of attacks is a “war.”
Once can be an incident or an attack. If it goes on many times over a long period, it is a war.
Wars have two sides, and they draw in others, and they kill a lot of people before they are done.
Israel quite openly wants the US to have a war with Iran. THAT is “the problem.”
Iran says it wants Israel erased from the pages of history. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Iran has boasted that it helped Hezbollah & Hamas kill Israelis. Iran has offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel. That’s war mongering! Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.
THAT is “the problem.”
Same % of people in the US that bloviate about destroying various countries or “turning them into glass”. Probably more people in the US that want to destroy Israel than Iran. But, I know that tired meme will never die.
You’re a brain-raped Zionist stooge. Israel is a geopolitical crime-in-progress, and America is Israel’s bitch.
Tape the stripped ends of an electric cord to your temples and plug ‘er in. If you survive this DIY brain wipe, start over and skip the Zionist Kool-Aid.
For the record, I’m an American and a Jew, just not a Jewish-slash-Zionist criminal accomplice.
“Israel quite openly wants the US to have a war with Iran. THAT is “the problem.”
Pompeo, the Neocon criminal, has tried twice to “force” Trump into a war with Iran. The Drone Shoot-down gambit and the Soleimani Assassination gambit. Trump, with some difficulty, managed to avoid both of those treasonous plots. But now it’s down to the wire, so Israel is pulling out all the stops. The foundation has been laid for the false flag attack, by Israel or its proxies — the MEK, probably — on some American “asset” in the region, an attack that kills Americans.
Will Trump manage to escape yet again?
It’s not difficult to avoid war with Iran. Cheney and Bolton et al, pushed hard in 04-06. Once the war propaganda was on high, the generals took cheney into a room and spelled out what “attack Iran” actually meant. The propaganda campaign closed out. The attack Iran crew came back in 2016.
The logistics and costs remain, and, are probably worse.
If trump wants to avoid a US/Iran war, it is a simple matter of purging his sycophants, and returning to the Iran deal. But, we are not seeing that. Instead, we have militant provocations, and Albrightish sanctions.
So it turns out the ‘experts’ were fos. It was an inside job by an Iranian contractor according to Iran. They really weren’t experts anyway because, as General Keane noted in a recent interview, there have been many dozens of events since last summer. Most of these events have been very minor – fires started in parks being the most. These are not things a state actor would waste effort on. The whole picture here is that Jason Ditz’s ‘experts’ are faux experts who cherry picked what they wanted to talk about. It demonstrates the lack of objectivity of this web site.