'Zero Days' director says U.S. government secrecy trend 'appalling'

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-berlin-zerodays-idUSKCN0VQ1MB

'Zero Days' director says U.S. government secrecy trend 'appalling'

BERLIN | By Michael Nienaber and Michael Roddy
Feb 17, 2016 6:35pm EST

The director of a new documentary outlining U.S. plans for an extensive cyber attack on Iran said on Wednesday he was angry and appalled by the rapidly growing trend towards secrecy in the U.S. government.

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"I am angry about the incredible amount of secrecy in the United States and how it has become a kind of obsession that is damaging our democracy," Gibney said at a post-screening news conference.

"I think, frankly, that the trend and the momentum towards greater and greater secrecy in the U.S. administration is appalling.

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The composite NSA source says that despite the deal agreed in July with Iran by the United States and its negotiating partners to curtail Iran's nuclear program, the Nitro Zeus capabilities remain "implanted" in Iran's servers and computers.

"We were everywhere inside Iran, still are," the actress speaking for the NSA sources says.

"I'm not going to tell you the operational capabilities of what we can do moving forward, or where, but the science fiction cyberwar scenario is here, that's Nitro Zeus."

The film suggests that Israel moved independently from its U.S. partners and changed the code of the initial Stuxnet virus in such a way that it spread all over the world with unforeseeable consequence, including allowing other governments to copy it.

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1. Story reeks of disinfo:

"We were everywhere inside Iran, still are," the actress speaking for the NSA sources says.

"I'm not going to tell you the operational capabilities of what we can do moving forward, or where, but the science fiction cyberwar scenario is here, that's Nitro Zeus."

But he is right about the obsession with secrecy, they have always been greedy when it comes to power, and secrecy is power.

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2. I don't doubt that we're still inside Iran.

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(edit to clarify my statement)