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Sunday, January 16, 2011

The Stuxnet computer worm source?

It's beginning to look as though the Americans and Israelis may be responsible for it after all, as suspected:


Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay





The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.
Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own,
I think the question may be whether we opened yet another "pandora's box" on humanity and, too, whether it was an inevitability.  It seems as though it likely was (inevitable).


Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

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