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A Finnish-Chinese Connection For Stuxnet?

Posted by timothy on from the fusion-cuisine dept.

Lingenfelter writes "I recently wrote a white paper entitled 'Dragons, Tigers, Pearls, and Yellowcake' in which I proposed four alternative scenarios for the Stuxnet worm other than the commonly held assumption that it was Israel or the US targeting Iran's Bushehr or Natanz facilities."

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  1. Overthinking it by mike260 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Israel is (by far) the most nervous about Iran's nuclear program, and already had one pre-emptive attack on a nuclear plant under it's belt that (in their worldview) was a resounding success and is a point of national pride.
    So one of the drives targeted by stuxnet is manufactured in China...I hate to state the obvious, but what isn't?

  2. Re:It's about oil and coal by tacktick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now that is a tempting hypothesis.
    But I'm going with Occam's razor on this one.

    Who has the most to lose should Iran get nukes? Israel. Who has the most interest in the region? Israel. Who has the cash and the tech know-how? Who has a close relationship with a more powerful country with a _big_ interest in stopping Iran? Israel