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Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor
yuna49 writes "Analysis of the Stuxnet worm suggests its target might have been Iran's nuclear program. "Last week Ralph Langner, a well-respected expert on industrial systems security, published an analysis of the Stuxnet worm, which targets Siemens software systems, and suggested that it may have been used to sabotage Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. A Siemens expert, Langner simulated a Siemens industrial network and then analyzed the worm's attack. Experts had first thought that Stuxnet was written to steal industrial secrets, but Langner found something quite different. The worm actually looks for very specific Siemens settings — a kind of fingerprint that tells it that it has been installed on a very specific Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) device — and then it injects its own code into that system."
Hopefully by that time, Stephen Harper will no longer be prime minister, some other asshat will. And Canada will go back to its "peacekeeping" role. We're safe up here!
The people in control of the government are overwhelmingly arab.
Maybe less than would go wrong if Iran got the bomb?
Now here's a nice scenario for you...what if Palin got the bomb?
Please excuse me while I convert all my possible credit into hookers and blow, the world's gonna end anyway...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Cooling systems, for instance, tend to be big, and more or less have to be either aboveground(for massive air exchange) or next to a nice cool body of water. And, since they are cooling systems, hiding their IR output is going to be a trick. If you lose your cooling system, you have not that much time to drop the moderators into the core and shut the thing down, or get a nice pile of molten radioactive slag that has to be entombed more or less forever.
Unless, of course, your enemy is just waiting for you to do something like this, and when obama lights 2 cigarettes at once, they'll dump radioactive waste on some kindergarten (you know one that muslims consider a lesser-beings-kindergarten, like one for women), and claim his cigarette did it.
If a bomb hits ONE pole of the security fence around the gardener's house ... they'll poison a neighboring country and claim the US (/Israel/gays/lesbians/women/non-muslims/satan/...) did it.
Perhaps the right response would be the most trivial of all. Use the random bombings technique they use, but against them. Start blowing up anything smelling Iranian in foreign countries ... Claim it's their oppression that's causing the bombings (talk about a plausible explanation !).