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Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet
CWmike writes "Iran's Brigadier General, Gholam Reza Jalali, accused Siemens on Saturday with helping US and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country's nuclear facilities. 'Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the information about the codes of the SCADA software and prepared the ground for a cyber attack against us,' Jalali told the Islamic Republic News Service. Siemens did not reply to a request for comment on Jalali's accusations. Stuxnet, which first came to light in June 2010 but hit Iranian targets in several waves starting the year before, has been extensively analyzed by security researchers. Symantec and Langner Communications say Stuxnet was designed to infiltrate Iran's nuclear enrichment program, hide in the Iranian SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) control systems that operate its plants, then force gas centrifuge motors to spin at unsafe speeds. Jalali suggested that Iranian officials would pursue Siemens in the courts, and claimed that Iranian researchers traced the attack to Israel and the US. He said information from infected systems was sent to computers in Texas."
Which the US also signed. Care to explain how they're moving towards disarmenent, as the treaty obligates them to?
Sadly, a lot of absolute fucking morons such as yourself truly believe such statements. The truth is, they absolutely fucking do not. Only absolute fucking idiots would believe as you.
Peaceful nations representative by some type of democracy (any form of governance where the people are well represented) which provides for stability, both economically and sociologically, deserve nuclear weapons. And frankly, in this day and age, the need for nuclear weapons has all but dissolved. Furthermore, only you've established one actually qualifies for nuclear weapons, the need for nuclear weapons all but disappears.
So basically, at this point in time, only rogue countries actually want to get nuclear weapons at this point. If you're not a rogue country, you basically don't want nukes. The fact a country wants nukes is a really strong indicator they likely shouldn't be allowed to have nukes.
That may sound harsh, but nuclear proliferation is really bad. Continued nuclear proliferation means some country is likely to see mushrooms because of some dip shit country - such as Iran.
Seriously, using the Iranian country as an example, if the government were overthrown, its extremely unlikely the new government would want or need nuclear weapons. So basically, the best weapon to prevent nuclear proliferation is to overthrow dip shit governments such as Iran.
Think about it. Iran is a regional power and regional threat. No one is threatening Iran. Internally the people of Iran want the government out. The Iranian government may want nukes, but that's exactly my point. The point at which they seriously invest in nuclear weapons is the point at which the government should be completely destroyed.