Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

[Jack Slade <sweetlipsbutterhoney+fulldisc () gmail com>]

There's an election year in the US. A president has not been re-elected in
the last 40 years when the unemployment rate is above 8% which is where we
may end up come November. I file this story in the same place as the pomp
and circumstance the President performed around the anniversary of the
killing of Bin Laden. Anything to distract from the moribund economy.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>wrote:

> From thereg:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/01/stuxnet_joint_us_israeli_op/
> US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli op
> Well, sure ... so why are you telling us, Mr President?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 02:52:51PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html
> > WASHINGTON — 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.
> > Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of
> > the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
> > the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E.
> > Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow
> > the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised.
> > ...
> >
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