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Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks

DavidGilbert99 writes "The Iranian minister for telecommunication has said that the government will be taking key ministries and state agencies offline in the next month to protect sensitive information from cyber-attacks. However this move is just the initial step in an 18 month plan to take the country off the world wide web, and replace it with a state-controlled intranet. From the article: 'The US began offensive cyber-attacks against Iran during the presidency of George W. Bush when the Olympics Games project was founded. Out of this was [born] the Stuxnet cyber-weapon, which was designed to specifically target the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in Iran.'"

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  1. Re:Talk about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you think they would still have a crap theocratic government if the US and GB had not overthrown their democratically elected government in 1953 and replaced it with their own dictator?

  2. Re:Talk about... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's referring to the reasons the US/UK engineered the 1953 Iranian coup

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