Posted on 11/26/2010 11:17:09 AM PST by Ron C.
“why did Siemens in Germany or the Finns help Iran?”
oil - or other payment. Iran does not need credit cards to pay for military assistance. The hypocritical europeans love to keep their businessmen happy with those big contracts and their diploomats feeling self-righteous (over cowboys like George Bush) for continuing “talks”
Thank You to Israel for their efforts to contain a monster. I am sure good brave men and women died and will die in this effort.
fyi
...FR Thread:
Stuxnet Knocks Natanz Out For a Week, Hits Iran's Air Defense (bug raiding all their military)
It probably reported progress back using the phone.
Seriously. These SCADA setups have every kind of physical link to hardlines.
This is intriguing, eh?
It is definitely an interesting read.
There are times though when things go wrong, that too much credit is given to the entities that cause them to.
I wonder what percent of this is factual and what percent is pure conjecture.
See # 35.
I’ve known Steve for many years - since the earliest days of home PC’s. He has always been on the cutting edge of security, but his first big contribution to home PC users was his hard drive utility Spin Rite - which I have used for years.
Large chunks of the CIA are vastly more competent that the media, left and right, would lead you to believe. We can execute. However, Congress, and this executive branch, leaks like a sieve - so perhaps you are correct. The article surmises the Russians were involved. That one I highly doubt. Israel - extremely likely. These delaying tactics will not solve the real problem however. We need to bomb Iran day and night for 30-60 days until all infrastructure is destroyed: bridges, manufacturing, oil production and refining, communications, airports, all military capability, schools, mosques, all government buildings, their nuke facilities. Everything. And then walk away and not make any more idiotic attempts at culture change in the ME. It would stop their nuclear program and be the most effective (within the realms of political realism) blow we could strike against islamic agitation.
that really looks like a chew-wad in the lower face....
“wipe out our entire electrical grid”
Not only electric, water supply also. High service pumps are controlled with the same type of equipment.
The worm had to have entered the complex with some critical software component provided with Siemens’ hardware, or with a common Windows application that would have been on numerous computers.
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The lesson is that an air gap must be absolute for our infrastructure control to be secure.
Incredible.
I just read Splinter Cell - Conviction...awhile back...kind of relates...except stuxnet is much higher tech.
Hey...Windows 7 was at the central command center....
Well,,,, we do let them go to our colleges!
Russians are just as a smart and most did not vote for Obama.
Who do you think it was or who is Stuxnet? Russians? China?
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