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Re: [Full-disclosure] Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
- To: noloader@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
- From: "Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 16:20:04 -0300
Mission accomplished.
Corporatocrat White House puppet, the Times once more manages to
distract even conscious American citizens, removing focus of what
really matters, that is, an imminent *real* war against China:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18305750
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> 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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