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THE INTERNET – ‘The Bomb’ in this case is Stuxnet, the powerful cyber weapon developed by Israeli and US agencies to cripple Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Anonymous claims to have obtained the specifics of the worm from the HBGary emails after looting them from the company’s network last week as revenge for CEO attempting to ‘infiltrate’ the collective.
Anonymous has not announced its intention to use the worm, but in light of its recent declaration against the Iranian government, it is a distinct possibility that the full extent of the power of Stuxnet could be unleashed on
Originally posted by purplemer
Remember when Anon hacked into HGbary the internet security company last week in a revenge attack for them trying to sell Anon info to the FBI. Well apparntly Anon got hold of the Stuxnet virus code.
Originally posted by tristar
Originally posted by purplemer
Remember when Anon hacked into HGbary the internet security company last week in a revenge attack for them trying to sell Anon info to the FBI. Well apparntly Anon got hold of the Stuxnet virus code.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Please take the time to follow up on your post and i am not referring to it on a daily timeline.
Originally posted by Shenon
Iran isnt the only Nation who (wants to) use Nuclear Power Plants...I have had a bad feeling about Stuxnet the first Time i heard about it....False Flag anyone?
Creating something like that was stupid in the first Place...
Originally posted by DevilJin
This is awful news because Anon is a collective band of hackers with no real leader or central philosophy. Anyone in the group can declare that the virus should be used on an unsuspecting victim regardless of the level of offense done against Anon. The virus has been put into the hands of what would be the equivalent of any rogue terrorist group. Sure, they are doing good but it does not mean they can't or aren't corrupt to a certain degree.
Originally posted by purplemer
Originally posted by DevilJin
This is awful news because Anon is a collective band of hackers with no real leader or central philosophy. Anyone in the group can declare that the virus should be used on an unsuspecting victim regardless of the level of offense done against Anon. The virus has been put into the hands of what would be the equivalent of any rogue terrorist group. Sure, they are doing good but it does not mean they can't or aren't corrupt to a certain degree.
Anon are not a rogue terrorist group. maybe that is what the governments would have you think so they can continue making arrests, eemember years ago they burnt books, well now they censor the internet. Anon are a collective and they are standing up to protect the internet from censorship. Most of protests sofar have remained peacefull. Really a Ddos protest is the same as lots of people walking through the front doors of a bank and therefore stopping other people enter. But yes it does appear to be a war so if companies like Hbgary decide to try and hack anon do the members not have the right to protect themselves. Activism acts outside the remit of the law when the law does not cater. It is an integral part of the democratic system.
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Originally posted by rogerstigers
reply to post by SirMike
Yes, it is true that the original Stuxnet was programmed with specific targetting instructions as descrbed at the wiki en.wikipedia.org...
The problem is that Stuxnet was also programmed to be updatable. Meaning the target can be changed and the virus can be morphed to adapt to security measures.
Originally posted by kwakakev
Something does not sound right here at all. Why would Anon target Iran with Stuxnet when Iran has already been hit with it? The Anon that surfaced on the cablegate release was standing for the people and after the large multinational companies. This stinks of a false flag, hoax or some other diversion to me. I guess that is one thing with the name Anon as it could be anyone, mainly someone who does not want to be known. The enemies of Iran are already well known.edit on 14-2-2011 by kwakakev because: spelling 'of'