Internet Virus Strikes Iranian Nuclear Plant

The Associated Press: Worm hits computers of staff at Iran nuclear plant

Gee.........I wonder where this originated from and who helped write the code. Funny stuff.

Apparently Stuxnet is a windows virus. The idea that Iran uses Windows to run a nuclear facility is probably just as scary as the idea that they have nuclear technology at all.

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Originally Posted by bikeTripper

Apparently Stuxnet is a windows virus. The idea that Iran uses Windows to run a nuclear facility is probably just as scary as the idea that they have nuclear technology at all.

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Are you kidding me.... Halliburton while Dick Cheney ran it sold the Iranians on the Windows operating system knowing they always had a back door. And Windows is full of backdoors. :D

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Originally Posted by gypski

Are you kidding me.... Halliburton while Dick Cheney ran it sold the Iranians on the Windows operating system knowing they always had a back door. And Windows is full of backdoors. :D

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Well, that's probably true.

I guess I figured a nuclear plant would run on some super stripped down UNIX type system, or some proprietary embedded OS.

Gives a whole new meaning to 'Blue Screen Of Death" :wtf:

Or Irans nuclear program is being run by a bunch of uneducated, religous kooks who havent a clue what they are doing. Windows for a nuclear plant.........GENIUS!

Please reach out your unclenched fist Mr. Midget:thumbsup:

The systems effected were ran on an infrastructures system that the virus could effect.

I never really thought about what operating system a powerplant would use, I guess I had imagined some super basic, fully textual, data streams that only technicians could understand, but guess not.

-C