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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."
Put all NSA in jail please for committing digital terrorism
Islam is an infection. Nuclear weapons are the cure. Let's not mess around with cyberwarfare. Nuke Iran and all other Islamic countries. It's the only way for the rest of the world to live in peace.
they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent.
No. It's more than a bit stupid, in the same way that anti-Bush whiners always claimed that they were going to "wind up in Gitmo", yet somehow never did.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
It is Israel who is terrified of Iran, not the USA. Iran has never done anything to anyone. Israel, on the other hand, is the most racist country on earth, bar none. They are extremely Islamophobic/xenophobic and have even built a wall of apartheid around themselves to showcase their racism. America's role in this is the one that Israel coaxes (read: blackmails) it into.
The Israeli's are shitting bricks because Iran may get nuclear weapons and Israel would no longer be the big bully on the block. There would be a balance of power in the middle east, and Israel doesn't want that. They would rather be the only big dog on the block.
There is also the possibility that Iran may actually nuke Israel, in retaliation for her war crimes and genocide against Arabic peoples and for continually interfering with their quest for nuclear energy. And it would be deserving.
The USA should cut all ties and aid to Israel ($3 billion anually) and support BDS and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Israrel has caused enough damage to our world.