Also because it doesn't really matter; if the attack is large enough to be successful it's large enough that they could never prosecute each individual who uses it. Also it's used by botnets as well, so there's plausible deniability if they did track someone down.
I'm not sure, but I'd love to buy a copy in a high-def format.. I think they're teasing us.
It really is stunning how NASA can have the most exciting, awe-inspiring projects and footage of any government project that has ever existed, and yet it falls to an engineer to salvage this incredible footage, edit and narrate it (with his engineer friends). I've watched countless series of documentaries about NASA's various space programs and have never come across such excellent footage, so well explained.
1. Iran as a signatory to the NPT has a right to run nuclear power plants. Even Hilary Clinton doesn't object to the Bashehr facility.
Their covert enrichment facilities violated the treaty, so the treaty is void. (The west doesn't oppose the Bashehr facility because it's harmless civilian power, just what Iran says it wants.)
If signing the NPT meant you could enrich uranium using centrifuges from Pakistani arms dealers with no-one knowing it would be pretty pointless; it is designed to allow the peaceful use of nuclear power with enough checks and balances to prevent it being put to use creating weapons.
2. Bushehr facility is a Russian VVER pressurized water reactor. Russia is supplying the fuel and taking away the spent fuel.
Yup.. It makes you wonder why Iran is mining and enriching its own uranium, doesn't it?
3. Iran certainly has an uranium enrichment program and this would give them a "break out capability" but whether Iran is actually producing or about to produce nuclear weapons is another matter entirely and not supported by any substantive evidence.
They lied about owning enrichment facilities which they would have been legally entitled to as signatories of the NPT, if they had declared them and allowed regulators in to monitor their use/purpose.
They have turned down and turn down offers to use uranium enriched elsewhere (something not generally granted to those who break the NPT).
They have substantial fossil fuel reserves, which make going for nuclear power economically questionable at best.
The money they put into enrichment to 20% uranium for medical research reactors makes no sense from a $/health standpoint (especially when they are offered it as part of a trade for uranium which could be applied to weapons, and as a nation aren't known for cutting edge medical research).
You can't wait until half the bomb casing is all that's left to do until you start regulating states with uranium mines and enrichment facilities, when the enrichment process makes up the vast majority of the work.
4. Whether Iran's nuclear program is "evil" is at most a matter of opinion.
Okay, but whether they are trying to produce nuclear weapons really isn't..
Iran will eventually figure out this tool, and tailor it to new targets.
Does this whole episode give you the impression that Iran have the IT expertise needed?
Are there examples of defectors from western countries giving details of critical western military facilities to Iran?
Do Iranian agents have access to private keys owned by western technology vendors and signed by western certificate authorities?
Is there some western project/target based on SCADA systems that Iran is really keen to attack, which would actually make a difference if set back / taken out?
Does Iran, which can't even register its own WinCC systems, have a large pool of industrial systems-engineering expertise to call on?
Could Stuxnet be modified to have an alternate payload while avoiding detection by anti-virus?
If the Stuxnet authors are sympathetic to the target country, and involved in government, wouldn't they be well qualified to give effective advice on mitigating any derivative threat?
Since the number of 0-day exploits, the stolen private keys, and the highly targeted nature of the worm are all that make it impressive, yet are all useless against another target, what parts of Stuxnet could Iran reuse?
I could go on; Iranian citizens killing their own nuclear experts, the lack of loyalty among Iranian students, the lack of funds, the number of targets, Iranian vs US/Israeli software industries/expertise. It's a somewhat neat idea, but it's completely absurd.
And maybe if the ayatollah had allowed Khatami more power to reign in extremists in the military the revolution would have corrected that coup more easily, but we have to play with the hand history dealt us..
Does that Persian then go out and burn tokens which represent traffic in a street rally? Do Persian public representatives chant "death to traffic" in unison as the first order of business after getting power? Is being beaten to death by mounted police / getting stoned to death a bizarre pastime for Persian women? Are covert uranium enrichment facilities just another wacky Iranian cultural quirk?
Take SimCity, it was a terrible idea (initially), but people really liked the implementation of it (the city builder; SimCity's city builder was originally part of another less compelling game). People liked the city builder part more than the game itself because it was implemented well, and that part took off.
As a programmer, and a guy who has ideas, I find it insulting how simple people often think the programming is compared to their wonderful (stupid) idea (which lacks any sort of implementation, or any grounding in the reality of pulling off a complex project).
And if you try to inject a dose of reality.. forget about it, you just don't get the genius of their idea and must just be incapable/unimaginative/scared of taking it on. If only they could find a programmer..
These people often have little cash, and will always offer work on the basis of equity and not risk any of their own stuff to get it going, and are the same sorts of people who can't get a business loan for their dumb business idea and think banks are just stupid and lacking imagination.
I just wish I could be less polite to these people, but you feel like you would be trampling on this little pathetic ray of hope they have.
To be fair ProFTPD may or may not be crap; I remember back in the day it was pretty good. I do know it's a bit silly to use the same software as you use to distribute your own software, for this very reason (it's why the OpenBSD guys use Solaris).
Why not use SSH/SCP for unix or SMB for Windows? (I accept Windows should have an SSH/SCP alternative, and that it's one of PowerShell's few failings, but SMB is okay for encrypted local file transfers)
So now, nations like China and Russia have an advantage over the US in the conduct of their international affairs, intelligence, and defense. I can only imagine China's delight with each new release from WikiLeaks.
Like having it revealed that they would be "comfortable with a unified Korea, controlled by Seoul" ?
You hear this complaint pretty often, but it implies they get leaks from other countries too but don't publish them, and I've never seen any evidence to that effect.
You could say the same thing for air drones; making a shell that can find its range using a laser, calculate how many times it will spin before reaching that point, and count how many times it has spun before detonating, with enough explosive and shrapnel in the round to do damage to those beneath, is probably beyond being manufactured / sold cheaply.
It is similar to the laser guided rocket launchers which we gave to Afghans to bring down Soviet helicopters, but I can't see anything like that happening in the near future
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You can't give it money because MasterCard stopped accepting payments for it, hence the attack on MasterCard.
But yes it is an ineffective way to hit back.
Also because it doesn't really matter; if the attack is large enough to be successful it's large enough that they could never prosecute each individual who uses it. Also it's used by botnets as well, so there's plausible deniability if they did track someone down.
I'm not sure, but I'd love to buy a copy in a high-def format.. I think they're teasing us.
It really is stunning how NASA can have the most exciting, awe-inspiring projects and footage of any government project that has ever existed, and yet it falls to an engineer to salvage this incredible footage, edit and narrate it (with his engineer friends). I've watched countless series of documentaries about NASA's various space programs and have never come across such excellent footage, so well explained.
1. Iran as a signatory to the NPT has a right to run nuclear power plants. Even Hilary Clinton doesn't object to the Bashehr facility.
Their covert enrichment facilities violated the treaty, so the treaty is void. (The west doesn't oppose the Bashehr facility because it's harmless civilian power, just what Iran says it wants.)
If signing the NPT meant you could enrich uranium using centrifuges from Pakistani arms dealers with no-one knowing it would be pretty pointless; it is designed to allow the peaceful use of nuclear power with enough checks and balances to prevent it being put to use creating weapons.
2. Bushehr facility is a Russian VVER pressurized water reactor. Russia is supplying the fuel and taking away the spent fuel.
Yup.. It makes you wonder why Iran is mining and enriching its own uranium, doesn't it?
3. Iran certainly has an uranium enrichment program and this would give them a "break out capability" but whether Iran is actually producing or about to produce nuclear weapons is another matter entirely and not supported by any substantive evidence.
4. Whether Iran's nuclear program is "evil" is at most a matter of opinion.
Okay, but whether they are trying to produce nuclear weapons really isn't..
Iran will eventually figure out this tool, and tailor it to new targets.
I could go on; Iranian citizens killing their own nuclear experts, the lack of loyalty among Iranian students, the lack of funds, the number of targets, Iranian vs US/Israeli software industries/expertise. It's a somewhat neat idea, but it's completely absurd.
Don't be crazy.. the people who wrote Stuxnet just didn't realize that a centrifuge can spin at any speed.
I think icebike knows a little more about uranium enrichment than a multinational government-funded sabotage team..
And maybe if the ayatollah had allowed Khatami more power to reign in extremists in the military the revolution would have corrected that coup more easily, but we have to play with the hand history dealt us..
Does that Persian then go out and burn tokens which represent traffic in a street rally?
Do Persian public representatives chant "death to traffic" in unison as the first order of business after getting power?
Is being beaten to death by mounted police / getting stoned to death a bizarre pastime for Persian women?
Are covert uranium enrichment facilities just another wacky Iranian cultural quirk?
Take SimCity, it was a terrible idea (initially), but people really liked the implementation of it (the city builder; SimCity's city builder was originally part of another less compelling game). People liked the city builder part more than the game itself because it was implemented well, and that part took off.
As a programmer, and a guy who has ideas, I find it insulting how simple people often think the programming is compared to their wonderful (stupid) idea (which lacks any sort of implementation, or any grounding in the reality of pulling off a complex project).
And if you try to inject a dose of reality.. forget about it, you just don't get the genius of their idea and must just be incapable/unimaginative/scared of taking it on. If only they could find a programmer..
These people often have little cash, and will always offer work on the basis of equity and not risk any of their own stuff to get it going, and are the same sorts of people who can't get a business loan for their dumb business idea and think banks are just stupid and lacking imagination.
I just wish I could be less polite to these people, but you feel like you would be trampling on this little pathetic ray of hope they have.
Does it prevent more real-world attacks than it makes possible?
Does SeaMonkey have fewer exploits per user than Trident?
It's the default in IE8, and the search options site was down every time he tried it. i.e. The same reason anyone uses bing.
And those of you are a waste of your company's time.
To be fair ProFTPD may or may not be crap; I remember back in the day it was pretty good. I do know it's a bit silly to use the same software as you use to distribute your own software, for this very reason (it's why the OpenBSD guys use Solaris).
That and you need to pay a fair chunk of change to get your app signed. (Though it's hard to see a reasonable way around this)
You'd be surprised.. Recently I installed Invision for someone, and they insisted on having Joomla integration.
Why not use SSH/SCP for unix or SMB for Windows? (I accept Windows should have an SSH/SCP alternative, and that it's one of PowerShell's few failings, but SMB is okay for encrypted local file transfers)
So now, nations like China and Russia have an advantage over the US in the conduct of their international affairs, intelligence, and defense. I can only imagine China's delight with each new release from WikiLeaks.
Like having it revealed that they would be "comfortable with a unified Korea, controlled by Seoul" ?
It's possible, but unless you're going to give some evidence or reasoning it's baseless opinion, like "Assange is a rapist".
You hear this complaint pretty often, but it implies they get leaks from other countries too but don't publish them, and I've never seen any evidence to that effect.
You could say the same thing for air drones; making a shell that can find its range using a laser, calculate how many times it will spin before reaching that point, and count how many times it has spun before detonating, with enough explosive and shrapnel in the round to do damage to those beneath, is probably beyond being manufactured / sold cheaply.
It is similar to the laser guided rocket launchers which we gave to Afghans to bring down Soviet helicopters, but I can't see anything like that happening in the near future
Exactly; you don't seem to think "Copyright is undue government interference in the market" when it's protecting GPL software.
The purpose of law is to make distinctions.
"Undue" is subjective.. If you earned a living creating something which can be copied you would probably have a different take on it.