Archive for September, 2010
Iran Confirms Stuxnet Caused Damage To Nuclear Sites!
Original Stuxnet Researcher Issues Dire Warnings
Original Stuxnet Researcher Issues Dire Warnings "After Stuxnet was identified as a weapon, we recommended to every asset owner in America – owners of power plants, chemical plants, refineries and others – to make it a …
Publish Date: 09/23/2011 17:00
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16689-Original-Stuxnet-Researcher-Issues-Dire-Warnings.html
An Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Executive confirmed on Sunday that its nuclear reactor project had been infected by the Stuxnet virus, but said that no significant harm had been done. The executive failed to say what harm had been done however, and if months of delays at the Bushehr plant had been caused by the virus.
What is Stuxnet?
Well Stuxnet is much more than a virus and the program is apparently so sophisticated that teams of experts around the world haven’t yet discovered how it works and what it’s capable of doing.
It’s assumed however that a country created the virus and not a person or persons in a basement, and all heads are looking at the US, Israel and China as they are considered the only countries capable of creating the program.
Stuxnet is complex self-replicating malware that uses Windows vulnerabilities to insert itself into Scada (supervisory control and data acquisition) industrial control systems made by Siemens, which it then scans for information to report back to its controllers over the internet.
Under some conditions, it can then take control of the industrial systems, and it can be remotely updated.
Whether or not we’re pleased that the “virus” can slow down Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, what concerns me is that the question that now begs to be answered is, “When will sophisticated programs of this sort start taking over the power plants, water distribution etc and even the military installations of countries deemed to be enemies?”.
Should the sacred cow be slaughtered? Is Democracy simply the Golden Calf?
Is Democracy Dead/Dying? – Politics ~ Irish & International
www.politicalworld.org11/15/11
Is Democracy Dead/Dying? Political Movements and Ideas.
Is Democracy Dying? « Mercy not Sacrifice
At the same time, I'm feeling contrite today about my cynicism and lack of patriotism because a dream and vision for humanity that was exceptional about our country is in the process of dying. Democracy is more than just …
We hear so much about Democracies all the time, but are they really what they’re cracked up to be?
According to Professor Alexander Fraser Tyler, a Scottish historian who in 1787, was writing about the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before:
“The average duration of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years”.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship”.
The above would seem to fit the USA almost exactly in terms of its duration and the reason for its collapse.
Europe now has to choose between its democracies and Islam, meaning that the countries that choose democracy will be Islamicized within 20-30 years.
China has now replaced Japan as the number two economic power in the world whilst the US is facing bankruptcy before 2020.
