Digital first strike

[Skybird]

Here are two links two articles about stuxnet - and how it now is believed to be a massive digital attack in order to strike out at the Iranian nuclear weapons program. It is thoght that in early 2009 this trojan attack was responsible for the reduction of operational centrigues in Iran although at that time the Iranians installed more and more of such centrifuges. It is also said that such a highly cojmplex trojan cannot be just the tool of some hobby criminal, but must be formed and used with the ressources that only national states have.

The better, very detailed essay is the German one, for which I was not able to find an English equivalent somewehre. The second and third English links are just a brief summary of some features of the story. If you have a good essay on it, add it to the list. Please note that the conclusions are no Iranian propagandistic conspiracy theory, but are the results of examinations by professional German digital security experts and -analysts.

http://www.faz.net/s/RubCEB3712D41B64C3094E31BDC1446D18E/Doc~E8A0D43832567452FBDEE07AF579E893C~ATpl~Ecommon ~Scontent.html

http://www.daemonnews.org/2010/09/21...n-nuclear.html

http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/24138

Originally Posted by FAZ

„So etwas bauen große Staaten zusammen, wenn die Alternative bei einem Misserfolg wäre, einen Krieg anzufangen.“

"Stuff like that (struxnet) gets built by national states if the only alternative would be to start a war."