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Or could it be that it's not so much what the Iranians are using but what the USA and Israel are using? Windows.<BR>
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More likely good intel has produced the target(s) of opportunity and they happen to be Windows platforms. Somehow I don't think we'll be seeing a patch for this from MS. <BR>
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Sorry for the mini-rant but I'm having an, "I hate Windows" day....<BR>
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On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 13:12 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
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NYT broke the story this morning that the Stuxnet virus was created as
a joint effort by the USA and Israel. I presume that most of us have
already heard about the Flame virus (
<A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/article/256508/the_flame_virus_your_faqs_answered.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/256508/the_flame_virus_your_faqs_answered.html</A>
), which amusingly enough uses lua (<A HREF="http://lua.org">http://lua.org</A>) as its scripting
language.
Per boingboing: Writing for Wired's Threat Level blog, Mikko Hypponen
explains. "The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t
protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced
nation-states with bulging budgets."
Oddly enough, these threats seem to affect only Windows machines.
This makes me wonder why the Iranians are still using an OS written by
a company workin' for the Great Satan.
-- CHS
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