On 6/4/2012 2:52 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html > > WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly > ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems > that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly > expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to > participants in the program. > Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press > > Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush > administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of > the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because > of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant > and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security > experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the > United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet. > > At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of > the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and > the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. > Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow > the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised. > ... > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ Frnakly,
anyone who thought the US WASN'T doing this had their head in the sand. it was just a matter of time before it was discovered. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/