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Recruiting Doctors To Tennessee No Easy Task on East Tennessee …

www.easttnmedicalnews.com6/13/08

Although 82 percent of Tennessee's malpractice cases are settled without payment, medical advocates say torte reform is urgently needed. The recent passage of state legislation addressing meritless lawsuits is a step in the right …

Why Obamacare Is Socialist Crap. Brought To You By American …

chicksontheright.com3/22/12

We could easily save 40% of medical expenditures with a few words and a quick swipe of the pen. “Torte Reform of medical malpractice insurance claims”. Instantly costs would decrease faster than Obama can jet from one …

Because of Obamacare we’ve been hearing a whole lot about torte reform and medical malpractice lately and I’m sure that gun control is certainly on the agenda.

I’ve often heard however that you’re far more likely to die because of a doctor than a gunshot, but is that really true?

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?”.