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Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the new-same-world dept.

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. Treat anything from Debka cautiously by Motard · · Score: 5, Informative

    This site has a lot of seemingly tantalizing information, but a lot of it is BS. It reported that one of Saddam's palaces had huge glass covered aquariums where sharks would swim under your feet. Now that all the palaces have been 'visited', there have been no reports of any such thing.

  2. Re:So what's the word, people. by xaxa · · Score: 5, Informative

    (and which they most likely had to pirate because there are export restrictions against iran).

    For the US -- there's nothing stopping me selling computer software to Iran, unless that software is of military/nuclear/etc use (you can see the full details of what's not allowed here (the PDF)).

  3. Re:So what's the word, people. by Trevelyan · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more likely to have been Israel.

    For example this story, note that its from 2009 but still make a pretty good description of how stuxnet works. Google or following the links on stuxnet news stories will bring up other possible links to Israel.

  4. This is just pure lie, see proves below... by XARG · · Score: 5, Informative

    All this quotes are pure lies:
    search for "must expel Arabs and take" in
    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion

    search for "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation"
    http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=22&x_article=775

    etc...

    some arab supported seem to just LOVE using lies as the best weapon.