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On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks

Posted by timothy on from the all-in-all-it's-been-a-good-run dept.

dinscott writes "Last month, The New York Times ran a story about Stuxnet having been developed by the Americans and the Israelis as a part of a joint project, but it was based on claims by confidential sources. It now seems that the information from these sources was correct. The Haaretz — Israel's oldest daily newspaper — reports on a surprising video that was played at a party organized for General Gabi Ashkenazi's last day on the job."

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  1. Everything you need to know by slashqwerty · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the article:

    There is always the possibility that this was just a way of magnifying the General's achievements, but it is also possible it is true.

    In other words, it confirms nothing.

    1. Re:Everything you need to know by JoshuaZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, when I read the headline my first thought was "The Israelis can't possibly be so stupid as to do that. That's almost tantamount to admitting to an act of war. And doing it now will just make the faltering Iranian government look more like a valid object of sympathy." And then I read TFA. Yeah.

  2. Re:Beautiful by mr100percent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is Israel "keeping the Middle East nuclear-free" when it is widely regarded to have at least 100 nuclear weapons of its own? The Dimona Nuclear Complex is not exactly a secret.

  3. Re:Cyber terrorisim by Draek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course not, he's a Freedom Fighter (tm).

    Remember, it's not terrorism if the US or its allies does it.

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  4. Re:serious for a moment by Compaqt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a tangent, but it's funny to me how what are called the "moderate Arab states" have been the most repressive, either socio-religiously (Saudi Arabia), or politically (Jordan and the Persian Gulf states).

    Sadly, a lot of different factors combined to destroy the only multi-cultural democracy in the Middle East: Lebanon.

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  5. Misattribution by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 5, Funny

    Technically speaking, Microsoft really deserves more of the credit than Gabi Ashkenazi.

  6. Terrible, misquoted translation... by boazarad · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just read the original article, and as a fluent Hebrew speaker, can safely say that it's been grossly misquoted and misinterpreted.

    During the generals retirement party, news coverage of both the Stuxnet and the Syrian reactor attack was shown, probably as part of a recent army related events montage. This was no power-point slide titled "recent accomplishments". The conclusion drawn here are akin to claiming that the US was responsible for the recent unrest in Egypt, since news coverage of that even was played at the retirement party of a state secretary...

    Israel may have been responsible for these events, but I'd hardly say this "evidence" is conclusive