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Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors
Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers are fairly confident now that whoever wrote the Duqu malware was also involved in developing the Stuxnet worm. They're also confident that they have not yet identified all of the individual components of Duqu, meaning that there are potentially some other capabilities that haven't been documented yet. There was a lot of speculation when Duqu first emerged about whether the attack was the work of the same group--still unknown--that had created Stuxnet and unleashed it on Iran's nuclear facilities last year. Some of that was centered on supposed similarities in the code between the two pieces of malware, but that was before many of the individual components of Duqu had been identified and analyzed. Now that the analysis and research into the Duqu malware have advanced a bit, researchers say they've found more evidence that points to the malware being the work of the Stuxnet authors or their close associates. 'I'm convinced it's the same group,' Costin Raiu, director of global research and analysis at Kaspersky Lab, who has done much of the analysis of Duqu, said."
Every ME country doesn't want Israel to have nukes either, but Israel says they don't friggin care what you think. Israel is one of the single-digit holdouts that refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even Iran signed it (which is why the IAEA routinely inspects Iran).
Why are so many people surprised the Iranian people want nukes? Their democracy was overthrown in a coup that the CIA freely admits orchestrating, they lost over a million people in the Iran-Iraq war, where among other things Saddam Hussein gassed their capital. Israel keeps threatening to nuke Israel and Hebrew-language editorial pages keep agitating for it. The US has put soldiers on both the East and West borders of their country, and Bush and the new GOP candidates are running on an anti-Iran platform.
From Iran's point of view, possessing a nuclear weapon keeps you safe. Look at how Bush treated Iraq and North Korea very differently as a result. Even so, Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khaminei have both said that nuclear weapons are a sin (so if they were caught making one it would undermine their power completely), the IAEA has said that none of the Uraniam has been diverted from power-production to weapons production, and many scholars think Iran's moves over the last few years are a "nuclear latency" tactic.