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Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar
New submitter 9re9 writes "The NY Times describes what may be the beginning of an actual cyberwar between a pro-Palestinian group and Israeli companies, specifically El Al and the Tel Aviv stock exchange. From the article: 'A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning to Israel's Ynet news outlet that a group of pro-Palestinian cyberattackers called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites in the morning.' Though the article is skimpy on technical details, the group appears to have engaged merely in a DDOS attack. Hamas praised the attack as opening 'a new resistance front against Israel.' Is this the first acknowledged cyberwar?"
Are you really saying attacking a nuclear weapons enrichment program, whose sole end purpose is the creation of WMDs, is just like attacking a desalination plant, whose end purpose is clean water? Really?
Also, that is not what "ironic" means.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
Cry me a river. Either Israel gets to slow down Iranian nuclear weapon development or they get to bomb it outright. Which would you rather have? Don't expect them to sit on their hands as Iran openly boasts about its plan to wipe Israel off the map and develop the weapons for doing so.
PS: Every one of your points is hearsay. None of the aforementioned attacks on Iran have been linked back to Israel. There are plenty of countries going out of their way to slow down Iran, many of such attacks even coming from other Arab countries.