Foxnews: "Pentagon Silent on Iranian Nuke Virus
Pentagon Spokesman Col. David Lapan said Monday the Department of Defense can "neither confirm nor deny" reports that it launched this attack."
Stuxnet is a worm especially designed for sabotage unlike most worms designed for espionage. Some experts called it the most advanced malware ever. In fact, this worm is the first internet weapon that destroys physically. It targets industrial sectors which use Siemens systems, but Siemens systems in certain places. It finds those factories that use Siemens systems, checks their places and time if the place was the right place Stuxnet would start its mission at the appropriate time, unless the worm leave the system intact. After sending system information to an unknown place it forces the system to destroy itself. The computer experts say that designing Stuxnet requires lots of work and money that only a nation state can afford its money, technical equipments and talent. It is believed that Germany provided the information and the US designed the worm. Stuxnet has infected various countries from west to east, the US, the UK, Iran, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia. The spread of worm in Iran is significant; about %60 of infected systems are located in Iran. The Iranian officials confirm that the worm has infected some computers in Iran but not their nuke systems.
Technically, the designed worm has accomplished its mission, but its success is not clear to us yet, so we have to wait to get a firm answer. Evidence shows that the worm is designed for Iranian nuclear sites because most infections have happened in Iran. But which country takes advantages of this plan? Politically, this issue is a mystery, lots of questions have been raised about it, actually it turns to a psychological warfare between the US and Iran on Iranian nuke program, each side uses it to take advantages of it. It is a political propaganda on Iranian nuke program. Pentagon meaningful silence is somehow strange. Why does Pentagon remain silent on this issue? Why Pentagon does not deny these accusations? Pentagon silence has intensified its involvement in the attack. Whether Pentagon planned this attack or not, Pentagon is pleased with mysteries about the attack. Reactions from visitors who commented on the issue on the Foxnews website are different, some consider it useful and some do not.
“Cece” has left a scornful comment on the Foxnews website:
“thank the Lord! now can we pls go after n. korea and venezuela?!”
His/her comment suggests that these kinds of operations are not the true solution to these disputes. Waging a cyberwar just aggravates the current situation and makes no progress in settling the issue.
Totally I see this issue a propaganda with no final winner. It is a pentagon mystery which each of its angles can be linked to each other and poses a new question.
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