Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
NT Times / David E. Sanger
01-Jun-2012 (2 comments)

From his first months in office, President Obamasecretly 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.

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Bavafa

As Panetta said a few days ago in an interview…

by Bavafa on Fri Jun 01, 2012 07:41 AM PDT

Such cyber-attack against US can constitute an act of war, yet they carry them out themselves and expect a hand in cooperation and friendship. 

I don't mind  the cyber-attack, only get appalled by the hypocrisy of the West and its mouth piece when there are retaliatory actions, they all throw their arms in the air and claim foul-play.

 

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


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Faramarz

Fascinating!

by Faramarz on Fri Jun 01, 2012 07:34 AM PDT

 

 

Obama has been the most decisive and effective US president against the Islamic Regime.

What would be interesting to know is who got the "thumb drive" into Natanz and introduced the worm into the plant. 

In the case of Bushehr, it is much easier to pay a Russian contractor some money and have him stick the drive into the system.


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