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A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against each other, both for spying and sabotage, even as Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart met in Geneva to try to break a stalemate in the talks over Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
The document ( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2015/02/10/iran-current-topics-interaction-gchq ), which was written in April 2013 for Gen. Keith B. Alexander, then the director of the National Security Agency, described how Iranian officials had discovered new evidence the year before that the United States was preparing computer surveillance or cyberattacks on their networks.
It detailed how the United States and Britain had worked together to contain the damage from “Iran’s discovery of computer network exploitation tools” — the building blocks of cyberweapons. That was more than two years after the Stuxnet worm attack by the United States and Israel severely damaged the computer networks at Tehran’s nuclear enrichment plant.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Tuesday February 24 2015, @03:41AM
Yes! I cringe a lot having to provide credit card or financial codes on a site demanding I run scripts. I feel naked as a jaybird.
Its the thing that stopped me from doing online stock trading. I had no idea who I was *really* talking to when I know good and well that my URL bar is easily overwritten with scripting. I am sure the banker knew it too, but he has "Hold Harmless" clauses he demands I accept before he will do business with me. I also suspect my intolerance of scripting is what is killing off my purchases at Amazon, as I will allow Amazon, but not all those other little God-Knows-Who tag-ins who try to ride in on any Amazon transaction.
I feel I am trying to conduct business at the bank, with all sorts of strangers looking over my shoulder and taking notes.
I would sure like to see the day businessmen putting a "hold harmless" clause in their contract be seen as businesslike as restaurants printing "Not Responsible for Food Poisoning" on their menus. I hold that my Congressmen should have "fought for me" a bit on that DMCA, and required the concession of the "hold harmless" clause in exchange for legal teeth for reverse engineering and breaking digital locks. But not a one of them "fought for me", and sold all of us out to the Lobbyist.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]