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 ...
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
They're quite effective on bass and perch too.......
No way.
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.
If it was found and stopped before it did its job, it was hardly perfect.
“Arabs and high tech just do not work well together.”
THANKFULLY!!!!
Interesting take.
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.
Thanks for the link.
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.
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.
I heard it was a 12-year-old Jewish kid, but that report might be wrong. ;-)
“By all indications, this one worked perfectly, so hat’s off to the schemers at Mossad!”
Unit 8200, actually.
My pleasure.
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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