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Stuxnet Still Out of Control At Iran Nuclear Sites
Velcroman1 writes "Iran's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the US and Europe say. Last week President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after months of denials, admitted that the worm had penetrated Iran's nuclear sites, but he said it was detected and controlled. The second part of that claim, experts say, doesn't ring true. Owners of several security sites have discovered huge bumps in traffic from Iran, as the country tries to deal with Stuxnet. 'Our traffic from Iran has really spiked,' said a corporate officer who asked that neither he nor his company be named. 'Iran now represents 14.9 percent of total traffic, surpassing the United States with a total of 12.1 percent.'"
Unlike those kids at Anonymous, the perpetrators of stuxnet are showing who are the real hacktivists.
Targeted precise strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities, this is a bigger win for freedom and security in the free world and anything wikileaks or their supporters could dream of doing.
I commend these hackers for slowing down the evil Iranian government's nuclear ambitions.
> Also, it is considered dishonorable for a man to admit ignorance.
So how do you explain that fucking bearded cunt in a suit saying stuff like `the holocaust didn't happen` and `we have no homosexuals in Iran`?
So Stuxnet chatter is still observed around the planet, including in Iran and the US. Duh.
Now how exactly does this "expert" come to the conclusion that, somehow, activity from the US etc must be from infected home PCs, yet the same from Iran must be from some seekret uranium enrichment plant, which typically wound not be connected to the internet?
Oh, my bad, forgot, this comes from ScareTV... Never mind.
Angry people... like you?
Hey, this is a serious "nerds at war" story. Slashdot would be remiss to not cover what might be greatest exploit of weapons grade professional hacking in world history. How long before Slashdot "friends" find themselves on opposite sides of an actual war where key infrastructure is literally exploding? Because that's exactly what those worm coders did: Blow up uranium centrifuges in militarized underground bunkers. This really is the start of a new era in the history of nerddom, and if anything, it should be getting more attention from nerds. Maybe some of the authors of that worm even have user accounts here.
Symantec speculates a team size around 5-10 not including QA (whatever the heck that means).
Uh, good thing that programmers don't need QA or managers, and so on.
And yes, QA matters for an operation like this. You're probably having spies plant the bug, and they could get killed in the process. You don't risk spies on code that isn't tested.
Likewise, a fizzled attempt will likely trigger countermeasures making a future attack more difficult.
QA means getting it right the first time. That probably means creating a simulated environment and testing the software out in this environment. Sure, you don't need actual centrifuges and turbines, but you probably need software that emulates the feedback such machines would return to their controllers. I'm sure they didn't factor that into their "5-10" count.
I've worked on some IT projects where quality was serious business, and you can easily spend as much on testing as you spend on development. For a typical military-style coding effort factor in a WHOLE lot more.
So how do you explain that fucking bearded cunt in a suit saying stuff like `the holocaust didn't happen` and `we have no homosexuals in Iran`?
He's saying things his constituents want to hear, just like other fucking cunts say things like "we don't torture" or "the US government does not spy on American citizens without a warrant". In both cases it's not ignorance, it's deliberate deception.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Scroll up, douchebag and realize that there are people in Islamist states who have been killed for writing a single article. There are people in North Korea who disappear for speaking badly about the Government.
All the people marching in the streets this week about Julian Assange... Where were they when it was Iranian, North Korean or Chinese dissidents? Nowhere.
These people don't truly care about freedom at all. If anything, their reflexive anti-American views are the exact opposite. People serving jail time for opposing their government must look at Julian Assange like a spoilt little brat.
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When he says 'let's nuke Israel and kill another six million Jews', I don't see how you can compare that to even the worst thing a Western politician has EVER said.
And if that's truly what his constituents want to hear, then they too deserve everything they get.
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Seriously... do you think the Iranians are somehow genetically different from the rest of us?
Err... Yes?
Just as black people are genetically different to whites, Asians are to Swedes.
Did your brain just explode? Or is this where you call me a racist?
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Does that Persian then go out and burn tokens which represent traffic in a street rally?
Do Persian public representatives chant "death to traffic" in unison as the first order of business after getting power?
Is being beaten to death by mounted police / getting stoned to death a bizarre pastime for Persian women?
Are covert uranium enrichment facilities just another wacky Iranian cultural quirk?
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