Friends, Reuters reports today that Iran has foiled a planned cyber-attack by three colonialist powers, three warmongering powers, three powers who see peace as their enemy. The new attack virus is called FLAME.
A cyber-attack for those who don’t know involves placing computer viruses into Iran’s computer network in the hope that damage can be caused to the computer networks and the machinery that they control. Viruses will also send back key-strokes and email information to the virus creators without being detected. A similar attack was launched against Iran few years ago with the Stuxnet virus.
Of course, I’m no computer virus expert as you are probably aware by now but I do understand what damage can be wreaked on a country by stuffing up its computer network. If you can make machinery run faster than it should or use the wrong parts or lubricants or work out of sequence, the damage that can be caused is potentially immense.
Now Iran is already having to cope with sanctions, draconian sanctions like the ones used against Iraq which caused death and starvation. How much longer is Iran going put up with these attacks by the Predators of Western Civilization named in the title of this post? When is it going to spit the dummy and retaliate and assert its sovereignty?
And given that it is no slouch where technology is concerned, when will it invent its own virus and give Britain, the U.S. and Israel a taste of their own medicine? Of course, the three powers would immediately attack Iran claiming what Iran did was an act of war but not when they do it of course!
By coincidence or by design, I am having trouble downloading Google Images. I cannot download any images though I can save them. Whether a virus has been put on my website or it’s just a glitch with Google, I don’t know but I’ll get my son on the case and hopefully get it solved.
UPDATE at 1:22. I just downloaded an image from a non-Google source and it loaded without trouble (see above). The lily could be symbolic of what will happen when the nukes begin to fall on Iran!
STOP PRESS. I just saw a news item on CNN which suggested that some viruses may have leaked from a BIO-TERROR laboratory in the U.S.
Yes, human beings, regardless of race and religion, leave no stone unturned when it comes to developing hideous weapons which may help them to achieve military superiority.
The fact that a killer virus that escapes could kill everyone in the world doesn’t occur to them. Stupid Humans!
A computer virus has no legs can not escape, it was deliberately released.
A code virus has no power of its own till uploaded to a network and is now open source at the behest of every imaginative coder on the planet.
Regarding your censorship comments David. Yup, I get that a lot when posting alternate to commentary views and include links to credible professions presenting facts do question said MSM commentary.
Views offering Truth are illegal apparently. No member for the ministry for BS has the balls to say it but it seems more than obvious enough.
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Assange offered some truth and now he is a marked man, Gryph. As a child I was told to always tell the truth. Now it’s a crime!
What a screwed up world!
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It gets better. Time Warner can suck recorded programs back off of DVR’s. If your laptop has a built in camera, black electricians tape is the answer.
And our dear lawmakers are working up a “mileage tax”. How this is gonna work will be by thumb-drive. Your car wont start without it. And when you get gas, you’ll need it for the gas guy to download your mileage so they can compute how much tax you owe. And if you don’t pay your registration, or tax, they turn off your drive, oh, back child support, aw-snap.
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‘I’m no computer virus expert as you are probably aware by now but I do understand what damage can be wreaked on a country by stuffing up its computer network.’
Should mention at this point, I am a self educated coder does still spend many hours a day learning new things since Internet was invented. I am admin for several non political, not for profit nor for prophet websites which are still very much intact after years of SQL attacks made by global govt/corporate/ interests. Civilian hacks are well down by comparison. I’m not a black hat but have learned from many black hat tactics, include govt sanctioned operations like HB Gary Federal etc.
Introduction done, it is my opinion that stuxnet open source had capabillity to come with menu select destination in similar fashion to the Daz windows crack front end. Just select and the relative code is inserted.
That the Global MSM don’t see any of this as a problem worth noting goes to show how their collective code based knowledge is non existent. Thing to consider here. Imaginative knowledgeable coders use tools like notepad+ where corporates use prefab code in chunks. Big difference there, of which we hands on coders could write a book on why secure outcomes are not possible without significant human imagination.
For those interested in keeping current on code related security issues keep the link below on your daily watch list.
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/
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David,
The “bugging” of Iran with these two “viruses” IS an act of war in my opinion.
Of course it was not intended for them to “escape” from Iran and invade the net. Well, there you go, another “unintended consequence” of the morons running the show. They should have known the possibility existed. I know, I am asking too much of the clowns running things. Still…….
Now that the “big three” in your title have unleashed this cyber war, if and when Iran does counter attack, they deserve what they get. I know, it is another, “we can do anything, but the rest of you best never try what we do.” Well sir, that is pure, unadulterated bulls**t! If any of those three suffer(?) a cyber attack, they started it all and too bad for those of us who live in those countries that started this nasty cyber war.
ENOUGH!!! Enough of ALL former of warfare. When will people realize that we are all the same? We have the very same basic needs and most of us have the same desires, to live in peace and for the children to have as good, if not better a life than we have had.
Human beings of the world need to unite and rise up, throw off the oppressors of us all.
Yeah, I AM getting very radical in my old age. I make no excuses, it is my life and I will live it as I see fit. Demand change. Demand respect for ALL human beings and ALL other life forms.
Thank you for making me think David, keep posting.
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‘The “bugging” of Iran’
Stuxnet_01 – set centrifuge to spin up out of control is well past ‘bugging’. It is a nuclear attack and as you observe is an act of war at best, future bio cleansing opps an obvious byproduct when nuke particles go feral. Like spent uranium weapons, nuke power products they lack the exiting images of nuclear detonation but is no less effective as threat to all humanity.
Is hardly “unintended consequence” when the inevitable is so blinding obvious to so many.
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Long time reader here…..
David, I enjoy your commentaries, but I question the origin of this computer “virus”. It sounds like the Iranian government has staged (and foiled) a “false flag” attack on their computer networks. What would “imperialist” powers gain from harming some Iranian computer networks? Iran has no advanced weapon programs to speak of, so what would be the military point?
This “virus” no doubt was created by the Iranian government as a propaganda ploy.
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For those not not heard of Olympic Games nor familiar with obvious facts established already do start with page linked below.
Obama, Bush Behind Stuxnet Worm, New York Times Report Says
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/1922-obama-bush-stuxnet-report.html
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The Stuxnet virus was found in the Fukushima computer system in October prior to the march earthquake. It is quite possible the US and Israel are indirectly responsible for what’s happening there. One wonders why the media is conspicuously silent on Fukushima.
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Amerika, this world is full of lies and deceptions. Honesty is a thing of the past assuming it ever existed.
It’s probably just as well we don’t know about somethings otherwise we’d probably jump off bridges!
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