full-disclosure - Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 16:20:04 -0300
From: "Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: FunSec List <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks
 Against Iran

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@...il.com> 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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Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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