I just thought this was super cool.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/26/secret-agent-crippled-irans-nuclear-ambitions/

It is brilliant on the designers' part, since the Iranian nuclear plants aren't connected to the internet yet were still able to be infected.



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Yeah, it's a great way to commit a crime and get away with it. Some of the Fox fan comments on there are really scary.

It certainly is a technical achievement, though. The Iranians will have to go back to Los Alamos 1945 technology to make sure that doesn't happen again. No modern computers...

My inner geek finds it interesting that the way the Iranians tried to protect their system by air-gapping is the same way Adama protected the Galactica from the Cylon cyber attack in the BSG miniseries. Guess Adama was lucky nobody used flash drives in the BSG 'verse!



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It's a much better alternative than sending a special forces team or intelligence operatives to blow up the place.

"Stuxnet became self aware..."

see... this is why secret evil empire runs linux. idiots and their windows 7. haha!


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Yeah, the most terrifying part of all this is that the nuclear technology and stuff is on Windows 7.

We're fucked!!

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> see... this is why secret evil empire runs linux.
> idiots and their windows 7. haha!


Mmmmwaaahahahahaha! And they have sharks that shoot friggin' laserbeams from their heads too. =O

I received a notice about this back in September, and the prevalent theory was that a Russian contractor borne USB memory stick was loaded with the virus.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/stuxnet-worm-reportedly-planted-by-iranian-double-agent-using-memory-stick.ars



The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Once the memory stick was infected, Stuxnet was able to infiltrate the Natanz network when a user did nothing more than click on an icon in Windows, ISSSource reported. They cited former and serving US intelligence officials who requested anonymity because of their proximity to the investigations. Covert operators from Israel and the US wanted to use a saboteur on the ground to spread the infection to insure the worm burrowed into the most vulnerable machines in the system, reporter Richard Sale added.

Blessed are the murderous.

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> The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's
> nuclear program was planted by a double agent
> working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped
> memory stick to infect machines deep inside the
> Natanz nuclear facility, according to a report
> published on Wednesday.
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> Once the memory stick was infected, Stuxnet was
> able to infiltrate the Natanz network when a user
> did nothing more than click on an icon in Windows,
> ISSSource reported. They cited former and serving
> US intelligence officials who requested anonymity
> because of their proximity to the investigations.
> Covert operators from Israel and the US wanted to
> use a saboteur on the ground to spread the
> infection to insure the worm burrowed into the
> most vulnerable machines in the system, reporter
> Richard Sale added.


Chris, should I just send you a letter?