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'Stuxnet is so deeply embedded in Iran, their counterstrike plans are already known'

Here's a blog that the 'anti-virus experts' at Symantec and Kaspersky (and others) ought to be reading. They claim - and back it up - to have known about Stuxnet and Flame (which they call Stuxnet 3.0) since 2009 (Hat Tip: Jawa Report).

If they are correct, Flame is not automatically uninstalling on every computer in Iran, but only on computers where the Iranians start to look for it. And just because it disappears doesn't meant it can't come back. Here's the key part:

Stuxnet/flame puts USA in same position
as when US was only one with atom bomb,
MAD NOT APPLICABLE, first strike
can take out everything, leaving enemy nothing
to retaliate WITH.

Stuxnet is so deeply embedded in Iran
their counterstrike plans are already known.

This powerful weapon is so comprehensive
it is a deterrent in and of its self,
You don't slap someone who has you
by the balls like stuxnet has Iran.

The flip side of the suicide function,
as the press calls it, isn't suicide at all.
Its artificial intelligence, if you start looking
for Flame it knows and disappears.
Flip side is its so easy to penetrate PCs
dumping all traces of its self isn't a problem
it will revisit later.

Read it all. It's fascinating.

Labels: Flame, Iranian nuclear threat, Israeli attack on Iran, Stuxnet

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:37 AM