Posted on 11/18/2010 10:55:35 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected earlier this year on computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other countries. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Now that it’s been discovered, can the worm still be destructive?
“All your centrifuge are belong to us!” - Mossad.
I love it!
o/~ Hava negilah hava... o/~
And I am sure that the brilliant genius who designed that sucker knows that full well. Tricks like that are easy enough to foil, which is why when you use them you go for maximum effect.
By all indications, this one worked perfectly, so hat's off to the schemers at Mossad!
It depends on what the solution is to removing or putting it in quarantine. We have no idea if it blew any motors, Iran is not about to say, but maybe it has caused a real slow down in the nuclear program because reactors have had to be removed from use?
I know this thing has shown up in the U.S. Wonder if any kind of motor was used in the deep water rigs and if they had Siemen’s control programs?
I have no idea. Logic has Israel written all over it. Sorry I could not help.
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The paternity of the worm is still in dispute, but in recent weeks officials from Israel have broken into wide smiles when asked whether Israel was behind the attack, or knew who was.
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Ralph Langner, a German expert in industrial control systems who has examined the program and who was the first to suggest that the Stuxnet worm may have been aimed at Iran, noted in late September that a file inside the code was named “Myrtus.” That could be read as an allusion to Esther, and he and others speculated it was a reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
I’ve read extensive technical articles on this (20+ yrs. in computers) and they state that clearly this (Stuxnet) was not the work of one person, but an extensive incredibly expert high level team of such a high level that it had to be a country.
Of course, we all know who that had to have been.
Kudos, Israel.....keep it up and bring the whole Muslim technical world down.
Of course, “Muslim technical world” is almost an oxymoron......or the size of a pea.....only Pakistan other than Iran.......
;-)
It seems there isn’t much in the news these days that puts a smile on my face.
This has me grinning from ear-to-ear.
WOOHOO Israel!
If all the foreigners were to leave the Arab world, within 10 years half of them would be back to living in tents and herding goats. It would happen even faster for the Saudis, Yemenis, Jordanians and the North Africans — with the possible exception of the Egyptians and I am not even sure about them.
Arabs and high tech just do not work well together.
Arabs and toilets do not work together either.
I have a lot of admiration for the guys who pulled this off.
Or just a bored teenage computer geek.
You want to impress me, there’s a certain teleprompter that needs to be shut down ....
Yes. If you are running frequency converters manufactured by Fararo Paya in Iran or Vacon in Finland, you have problems. Otherwise, you are probably safe.
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