Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran 415
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 Eastarabia! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:0, Funny)
Yeah, I'm sure it does. Like it takes an act of God to create the Universe.
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Unnamed Sources? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
"Gutsy" Move (Score:5, Funny)
I can see a campaign commercial now.
Obama single handily Killed Osama, wrote stuxnet AND snuck it into Iran on a USB key.
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
I like that line of thinking.
We're still undefeated!
well, I guess that whole war of 1812 thing is still debatable...
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he got a transcript of the meeting from the Chinese?
Re:Bad news for USA and Israel (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? (Score:4, Funny)
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)