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Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran

sciencewatcher writes "At debka.com, a website associated with intelligence communities focusing on the Middle East, the claim is made that Tehran this week secretly appealed to a number of computer security experts in West and East Europe with offers of handsome fees for consultations on ways to exorcise the Stuxnet worm spreading havoc through the computer networks and administrative software of its most important industrial complexes and military command centers."

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  1. why don't they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    why don't they just use firefox instead of ie??

  2. I guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...it really stux to be iranian.

  3. Re:So what's the word, people. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, they didn't. Proof: it worked.

  4. Re:Anyone else find that site a litte skeevy? by couchslug · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting technical information from Debka is like getting your foreign affairs info from the New York Daily News.

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  5. Re:So what's the word, people. by rootchick · · Score: 2, Funny
  6. Thank God it's not named... by master_p · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Tuxnet.

    or... ...Suxnet.

  7. Who died and made you... by CountBrass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who died and made you the Supreme Court? Or is there something in the constitution that allows any ill-informed muppet the right to make that judgement?

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  8. Re:smells like more israeli racism than news to me by jpmorgan · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what you're saying is you're treating the website differently because it's from a specific race.

    Gotcha. Racist.