Underestimating Israel
I can't believe London's Daily Telegraph has the gall to write this kind of stuff (Hat Tip: Jihad Watch). Separate investigations by US nuclear experts have discovered that Stuxnet worked by increasing the speed of uranium centrifuges to breaking point for short periods. At the same time it shut off safety monitoring systems, hoodwinking operators that all was normal.Have Mr. Parker or Mr. Lawson or Mr. Williams (the Telegraph reporter) compared Israel's programming skills with Britain's (or for that matter with the US's) lately?
Mr Parker found that this part of the attack must have been conceived by "some very talented individuals", and the other by a less talented, or more rushed, group of developers.
The element written by the first group, which was activated after Stuxnet reached its target and is known as the "payload", is very complex, well designed and effective, according to Mr Parker's analysis. He believes this is evidence of the involvment of a major Western power or powers - potentially including Britain - because they have both the scarce cyber expertise, and access to the tightly-regulated nuclear equipment necessary to test the virus.
In contrast, the way Stuxnet was distributed and its "command and control" features, which allow it to be remotely altered, include many errors and are poorly protected from surveillance.
"It's a bit like spending billions on a space shuttle and then launching it using the remote control from a £15 toy car," said Mr Parker.
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"Either the authors did not care if the payload was discovered by the general public, they weren’t aware of these techniques, or they had other limitations, such as time," said Mr Lawson.
However, the apparently cheap wrapping of an expensive package points to Israel as the distributing power, said Mr Parker.
It's a pity that no one at the Mossad is able to answer this one. What a bunch of rubbish.
Labels: Iranian nuclear program, Mossad, Stuxnet
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:37 PM
9 Comments:
Israel, classified and military activities aside, continues to be a premier computer partner with Intel in developing Intel's next generation products. Polite and not so polite contempt for Israel is just another ritual by which not-so-Great Britain's fading intellectual elites accommodate themselves to semi-perpetual dhimmitude.
I read that ridiculous article yesterday. Sad-the Daily Tele used to be a rock-solid piece of accurate, unbiased journalism. The Daily Tele and the London Times were the two best papers in Britain. Now, we see more and more inaccurate, sloppy, badly researched articles, many of which reflect a generally very liberal MSM outlook and PC attitudes.
In this case, I suspect it's a combination of English snobbery (looking down their noses any anything not British or at least European) plus some anti-Israel bias.
In other words, cr*p disguised as journalism.
Let them underestimate us. It will be them who gets a nasty surprise at the end, not us.
The Daily Telegraph used to be a very pro-Israel paper but sadly it has changed its tone in recent months. Its chief political writer is Peter Oborne, he of the "UK Israel lobby" channel 4 notoriety. He is very anti-Israel. They also have on staff Richard Spencer who is based in Dubai (or one of the other Gulf states) and regularly writes fawning articles about the Arabs.
Things just ain't what they used to be.
By the way, there are plenty of commenters who disagree with the author regarding Israel's capabilities.
I hope Parker didn't buy his kids a Microsoft Kinect hands free motion sensor for XBox.
It's been selling like hotcakes since its November 2010 introduction.
But Parker must assume it's an absolute shmattah.
And of course, Mr. Parker should steer away from potential garbage produced by Intel.
There are a million and one of these recent stories of shoddy Israeli know-how. I am shocked - shocked, I tell you - that Parker hasn't publicized them.
The entire leftist approach, including the Euros and universities/education in the U.S., is based on marxist coveting of others' wealth, whether gained by hard work, inspiration, or even plain luck of birth. Even though so many leftist Jews (in Israel and the U.S.) feel that "spreading the wealth" is a Jewish tenant, it is not. The Torah (unless I'm missing some chapter) calls for feeding the poor and helping them get themselves going. But it does not call for diminishing the world's high achievers. I've known some of these achievers and they are fabulously productive. But the leftists see achievement as unfair. And, whether leftists or not, the second tier achievers will allow the true achievers to be torn down by leftists in order to reduce the "gap" between themselves and the stars. I've always thought that this is the reason the U.K. and U.S. academics have been so silent during the anti-Israel agitation on their campuses. Ugh.
As a 20+ year veteran of the Silicon Valley and East Coast tech startups, what does the UK do again? Nothing in the IT arena. Quick, what sites do you access on a daily basis that have anything remotely to do with the UK? What British technologies do you use in your daily life? On the military side, they have decent pilots and planes, but all the tech is American. The sun set on the British empire long long ago.
Why would Mossad want to counter the (probably widely held) notion that Israelis are incompetent, and that their intelligence and military capabilities are overrated? I'll bet Mossad's very happy to let Israel be underestimated.
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