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from the pandora's-box-well-and-truly-opened dept.
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: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 24 2015, @03:56AM
I'd say it is more of an example of "reflexive thinking." The NSA, has as a premise, the belief that the world is full of threats to the USA. So they take actions in response to these perceived threats which ultimately result in the manifestation of the threats that the NSA originally believed existed. It is kind of the ugly version of Gandhi's "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday February 24 2015, @04:44AM
Insightful indeed
The mechanism seems to be consistent with:
Or, something on the line of "The (perverted but currently de-facto) job of NSA is to create threats for USA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0