Israel Suspected In Worm Sabotage of Iran's First Nuclear Plant; Spreads To US Plants And Computers

[Purveyor]

Attack has since spread to plants and computers in the U.S. and elsewhere, posing serious threat

It's been only a month since the activation of Iran's first nuclear power plant and there's already a major crisis concerning proliferation. But this crisis has nothing to do with nuclear arms proliferation. Rather, the scare has to do with the proliferation of the Stuxnet worm, a malicious computer program that has invaded the plant's computers and since spread to computers worldwide.

The viral program is very sophisticated and appears designed specifically to attack the plant. It first was released onto workers' computers, designed to try to reach plant's control systems. Unlike other more sophisticated attacks which appeared to be primarily geared for monitoring, this attack was designed to do damage. It contained logic to sabotage nuclear fuel enrichment centrifuges. The centrifuges, made by German equipment electronics giant Siemens, would be made to fail in a virtually unnoticeable way.

The Bushehr plant is located near Natanz, central-Iranian city located almost 200 miles south of the capital city of Tehran. The plant is a joint endeavor between Iran and Russia. While the U.S. and others have chastised Russia for its involvement, the U.S. intelligence community has asserted that it doesn't believe Iran to be currently developing nuclear weapons at the facility.

Mahmoud Jafari, project manager at the Bushehr nuclear plant is quoted in The Telegraph, a UK newspaper, as stating that the viral worm never achieved its goal. Comments Mr. Jafari, " has not caused any damage to major systems of the plant."

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[hlthe2b]

1. Wow... there will be a firestorm if true...

or worse. :wow:

[dark forest]

6. I don't know,

as big a firestorm as if they had bombed the place?

[Puregonzo1188]

2. Israel, as in the only nation in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons?

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[Leftist Agitator]

4. Your post is horrendously racist, and I don't get the "joke".

You should be ashamed of yourself.

I know racist jokes too, and guess what... They aren't funny, they're racist.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. I am not ashamed, I am not a racist, and you arrived as predicted.

The Stones did a song with a chorus line, "Hey you, get offa my cloud", this one liner is a play on that song lyric, it's not too hard to see the funny if you don't then that's you. Did you hear the one about the Italian shoes? tires? Nevermind.

[Caretha]

7. That was so not funny

not because it was racist....It just isn't funny. You may need to get that bathroom throne joke book and bone up on your "funny haha".

Fail

[moriah]

8. I always preferred "What's the difference between a Rolling Stone and a Scotsman?"

One says "Hey, you, get off of my cloud", and the other says "Hey, MacLeod, get off of my ewe..."

(MacLeod -- pronounced McCloud)

Edit to add: I have pronounced Scottish ancestry so at least I'm making fun of myself.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. That's so racist I can't stand it... but I laughed a little. PETA might

not be so amused.

[moriah]

11. At least I'm being racist against myself.

And at least he's telling MacLeod to get off of his ewe, rather than telling him to get on it....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. alright then, I'll tell you about the Italian shoes and tires.

I own a pair of fine Italian shoes, wherever I go, deigo.... and I have Italian tires, when they go flat they go wop wop wop wop.... so there, I made fun of my own roots.

[Statistical]

9. Joke involving a rabbi with punch line being "Hey JEW xxxxx"....

is racist.

It doesn't matter if you are unable to see that.