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Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges
New York Times ^
| Oct. 18, 2010
| By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
Posted on 11/18/2010 10:55:35 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Until I learn otherwise, I will continue to believe that Seimens had a come to Jesus meeting with the German Government in which they were asked to develop a solution to sabotage their work allowing the Iranian enrichment equipment to operate.
That meeting may have been precipitated by Israel or perhaps even the Bush administration promising German damnation and responsibility for the world under Iranian hegemony
Any way, bottom line......Siemens did it
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:07:31 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: uscabjd
It recently got into several big facilities in the US and caused some chaos.
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:08:54 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(What flavor Kool-aid are you drinking?)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges
They're quite effective on bass and perch too.......
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:10:35 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
To: Ronin
BTW in the dark world of hacking the word is that it was a joint US intelligence job that hatched it. Interestingly enough when the source is traced it leads to no significant place and the servers it looks for keep moving around meaning that it was planned that it would be discovered and shut down. As far as moving around and stopping it Microsoft still has not patched for it.
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:12:11 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(What flavor Kool-aid are you drinking?)
To: R. Scott
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:13:37 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(What flavor Kool-aid are you drinking?)
To: mad_as_he$$
It recently got into several big facilities in the US and caused some chaos.Could expand on that?
I thought Iran was to the point of starting their reactor when the control trouble was found.
To me that connotes the reactor was ready to fuel or was already fueled .
If that was the case the centrifuges aren't the only problem.
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posted on
11/19/2010 6:30:02 AM PST
by
Vinnie
To: Brad from Tennessee
If it was found and stopped before it did its job, it was hardly perfect.
To: Vinnie
I cannot expand on that because two of them are customers of mine. However, a quick Google search will put you onto how widespread Stuxnet is in the US. Bigger than you might think.
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posted on
11/19/2010 6:40:34 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(What flavor Kool-aid are you drinking?)
To: Ronin
“Arabs and high tech just do not work well together.”
THANKFULLY!!!!
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posted on
11/19/2010 7:06:43 AM PST
by
Arlis
(- Virginia loghome/woods-dweller/Jesus lovin'/Bible-totin'/"gun-clinger")
To: bert
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posted on
11/19/2010 7:51:14 AM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Being that it’s the NYT, I can’t beleive the headline isn’t “Jews Proven Responsible for Holocaust” then below the fold they get around to mentioning they’re talking about a holocaust in systems making nuclear material for rogue states.
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posted on
11/19/2010 7:54:47 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/19/2010 7:56:42 AM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: mad_as_he$$
I can see it now.
Bored computer science majors are setting around the frat house. Someone starts talking about the most difficult hack possible. They get with their fraternity network and decide to target a specific segment of a particular industry. When they succeed beer bongs are loaded.
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posted on
11/19/2010 12:46:18 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: R. Scott
I rather doubt it. Stux has to be a very elegant and sophisticated piece of code. Finding a subset of guys capable of doing it in a frat house is highly unlikely. Most colleges, at least ones in the USA, don’t even teach the depth necessary to produce anything like the kind of code Stux would need.
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posted on
11/19/2010 12:58:13 PM PST
by
FourPeas
(Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
To: FourPeas
I heard it was a 12-year-old Jewish kid, but that report might be wrong. ;-)
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posted on
11/19/2010 1:11:19 PM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Ronin
“By all indications, this one worked perfectly, so hat’s off to the schemers at Mossad!”
Unit 8200, actually.
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posted on
11/19/2010 2:03:09 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
11/19/2010 5:11:26 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
I literally was banging on my desk laughing when I read today that:
- Stuxnet looked for networks of more than 33 rotor controllers by two companies, one Iranian and the other Finnish
- It looked for only controllers rotating well above the speed at which our export control laws consider you probably are doing enrichment
- Centrifuges have critical resonance frequencies at which they are at risk to, um, sort of fly apart :-)
- Every few months, it would set the centrifuge (c’mon, we know...) to 1410Hz and then to 2Hz and then to 1064Hz
- Iran mysteriously lost about 800 working centrifuges a while back
THEY KNEW THE RESONANT FREQUENCIES OF THE CENTRIFUGES!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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posted on
11/19/2010 9:26:44 PM PST
by
InMemoriam
(Academics: Nominate the Stuxnet authors for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize!)
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