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

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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:52:22 +0200
From: Alexander Georgiev <alexander.georgiev@...oo.de>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks
 Against Iran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

Am 04.06.2012 21:01, schrieb Joel Esler:
> So, a quote, from a book?  Isn't that kinda circular?
>
> Also, there are no quotes from anyone in the room and no one is
> referenced except by association.  Not saying it's not true, but
> there's nothing there that indicates it is. 
>
> The only people who will know if this is 100% true were in the Oval
> Office at the time, and those people aren't going to be quoted in a
> NYTimes article.  
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/%22Citation_needed%22.jpg  
>
> -- 
> Joel Esler
>
> On Monday, June 4, 2012 at 2:52 PM, 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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