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Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
diewlasing sends this excerpt from the NY Times:
"From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet."
We have always been at war with Iran, citizen.
We have always been at war with Afghanistan. Even in the 1980s, when Saint Reagan gave vast funds to our allies, the Russians, to defeat Osama Bin Laden.
Wrong. It takes an act of congress to declare war.
"Give a woman two glasses of wine and some pad thai, and they'll agree to just about anything." the Sports Guy
Yeah, I'm sure it does. Like it takes an act of God to create the Universe.
Exactly, that's why the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the War in the Gulf, the War in Iraq, and the War in Afghanistan all never happened.
they were "police actions" goddamit.
So, because they "never happened" , they don't count as losses on America's war scorecard?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I don't understand one thing - all of this is based on David Sanger's book, which in turn is based on "unnamed US, European and Israeli sources".
Other than the author's reputation, do we have anything resembling evidence that this isn't just a science fiction book being sold?
The NYTimes is a reliable source, with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.
I can see a campaign commercial now.
Obama single handily Killed Osama, wrote stuxnet AND snuck it into Iran on a USB key.
I like that line of thinking.
We're still undefeated!
well, I guess that whole war of 1812 thing is still debatable...
I'd guess non-negligable damage to economic interests, or more likely physical damage to material assets... like say using a virus to cause physical damage to a nuclear weapons production facil...oh shit.
Yes, but there are no nuclear weapons production facilities, according to Iran. It's hard to go to war over damage to facilities that don't exist.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
this isn't anything even close to offical
You waiting for the CIA to issue a formal press release on one of its secret wars? Good luck with that.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Maybe he got a transcript of the meeting from the Chinese?
In retaliation, Iranian agents have infiltrated Microsoft, Canonical and GNOME and designed the next generation of user interfaces like Metro, Unity and GNOME3, so that Western Computer users will stop using computers, and attempts to sabotage their computers will be minimized. Imagine Pentagon officials having to struggle w/ GNOME3. Imagine Israeli cybercrime experts having to do this on Unity.
Well, just look at what you said for a simple explanation.
US (Big S, Big Satan)
Israel (Small S, Small Satan)
United Kingdom (No S at all, so no Satan)
Coz eternity my friend, is a long *ing time.