“Mr. Finch” created it.
I’m happy with Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame as tools to delay evil, but it’s about time to send a large array of MOAB or similar solutions to impose a much bigger delay. In the event that Israel is afraid to act while the anti-Semite is in our White House, they should plan a strike for January 19 or 20, 2013, immediately prior to a real president taking office in America - if they can afford to wait that long. It would be nice to let the next real president treat the attack as “old news” from a prior administration, while allowing Obama to treat it as something to pass down to his successor.
Even if an attack cannot permanently prevent Iran from going nuclear, a well-planned strike has the potential to make nukes so expensive that Iran will choose not to proceed.
OK, so who found it? The UK? Shame on them for blabbing...whoever did it.
Just imagine someone creating chaos for Iran (or any other terrorist supporting country) from the comfort of a keyboard. Imagine the nuke weapon engineer logging into his PC to find all files replaced with endless-loop youtube videos of coke & mentos experiments. Or the chaos of an electrical grid being randomly powered up & down. Or perhaps all their top secret electronic files randombly sent to news outlets across the planet. Would be fun to watch...
I would hope there are hundreds of people writing microcontroller code for industrial equipment to be installed in Iran’s nuke facilities.
A little self modifying code (very easy to do and very hard to detect) in some assembly language could do some mighty interesting things. Self modifying code allows the programmer to alter one or more instructions so they fetch or put data into the wrong area of memory or even to change the type of instruction which alters program flow at the modified instruction.
When the code is modified there may very well be no obvious change in operation or loss of data until a centrifuge goes ballistic. At that time it is too late.
PC viruses are much more prevalent and therefore more attention is paid to what goes on than down at the lowly but all so powerful microcontroller level.