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Stuxnet/Cyberwar Documentary Reviewer: 'The U.S. Has Pwned Iran' (networkworld.com)
Slashdot reader alphadogg quotes an article from Network World:
The new documentary about Stuxnet, "Zero Days", says the U.S. had a far larger cyber operation against Iran called Nitro Zeus that has compromised the country's infrastructure and could be used as a weapon in any future war. Quoting unnamed sources from inside the NSA and CIA, the movie says the Nitro Zeus program has infiltrated the systems controlling communications, power grids, transportation and financial systems, and is still ready to "disrupt, degrade and destroy" that infrastructure if a war should break out with Iran...
For the more technically inclined, the film contains some riveting interviews with researchers at Symantec who devoted their lives to unraveling the code line by line to figure out what it did, how it did it, who created it and what the target was. It was also a bit chilling in that after they figured out that governments were behind the worm they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent. One Friday night, says Symantec researcher Eric Chien, he said to his research partner Liam O Murchu, "I'm not suicidal. If I should show up dead on Monday, it wasn't me."
In the film former NSA and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden says "This stuff is hideously over classified."
For the more technically inclined, the film contains some riveting interviews with researchers at Symantec who devoted their lives to unraveling the code line by line to figure out what it did, how it did it, who created it and what the target was. It was also a bit chilling in that after they figured out that governments were behind the worm they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent. One Friday night, says Symantec researcher Eric Chien, he said to his research partner Liam O Murchu, "I'm not suicidal. If I should show up dead on Monday, it wasn't me."
In the film former NSA and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden says "This stuff is hideously over classified."
The fear of being knocked off by spooks looks more than a little bit ridiculous unless you understand that Mossad was in the mix. The "supergun" guy was assassinated by them but it's still a bit of a stretch that they would go after antivirus people that are only threatening exposure instead of being a threat themselves.
researchers at Symantec who devoted their lives to unraveling the code line by line
You know, when you "devote your life" to something it's usually for longer than a season of Game of Thrones. Mayhaps the claim is a bit hyperbolic?
just sayin'.
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It's not a lack of imagination, it's a lack of terror. Where's the scare when they do a computer attack? People are used to computers acting weirdly, they simply wouldn't care. It's also too easy to claim that it ain't terrorism, it's just "that weird computer stuff".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Which is hilarious because we aren't flooding their streets with our men trying to breed them out of existence.
You are aware that Linux had had some recent (within the few years) vulnerabilities that had been around for decades, that were recently found and patched. If the biggest open source OS can have decade old bugs what hope is there to be fully secure?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
For Americans so we feel like we have our hand at the button
American, huh. We say "hand on the button..."
Well, it appears that once Stux got out in the open and it was discovered and analyzed and tested on the same controllers that Iran used...it seems to have been proven successful.
The problem, it seems...is that Israel fucked up and on their own, made it much more aggressive and Stuxnet (aka Olympic Games, or OG) then jumped out an infected on a global scale, calling attention to itself, whereas it has earlier been successful, but still covert and confined it appears to only the Iranian targets.
I think this act by Israel explains a LOT about why obama has been so cold towards them....
And..I'm guessing the Iranian retaliation on the US infrastructure led to the crappy deal the US took with regard to the nuclear deal with Iran. I'm thinking Iran scared the US enough to take this horrible deal which will essentially let Iran become a weaponized nuclear power in about 8+ years....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........