Make no mistake about this. Barack Obama is a terrorist. We are not at war with Iran. He attacked a sovereign country using cyber-terrorism. When this is used against the United States, we will be outraged. When our President does it, he is insuring our national security. The people running this country are completely out of control and drunk with power. It will truly take an armed revolution to rid this country of the oligarchs calling the shots and running this country for the financial benefit of themselves and their cronies. Where is the outrage? Where are the protests from the champions of civil rights? I’m sure MSNBC will be holding Obama’s feet to the fire. Right?
Obama Ordered The “Code Stux”
Submitted by Tyler Durdenon 06/01/2012 10:51 -0400
When Iran’s nuclear facilities were publicly crippled in 2011 by what then was considered a revolutionary computer virus which destroys physical equipment, many immediately assumed the virus originated in Israel for obvious reasons. They were wrong. In what can be described as the first presidentially-mandated and condoned act of cyberwarfare, one circumventing the War Powers Act of course, the NYT informs us that the order to physically impair Iranian sovereignty came from none other than the Nobel Peace prize winning president: Barack Obama.
From the NYT:
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks – begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games – even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.
At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised.
“Should we shut this thing down?” Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room.
Told it was unclear how much the Iranians knew about the code, and offered evidence that it was still causing havoc, Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed. In the following weeks, the Natanz plant was hit by a newer version of the computer worm, and then another after that. The last of that series of attacks, a few weeks after Stuxnet was detected around the world, temporarily took out nearly 1,000 of the 5,000 centrifuges Iran had spinning at the time to purify uranium.
This account of the American and Israeli effort to undermine the Iranian nuclear program is based on interviews over the past 18 months with current and former American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day.
For those confused – yes: this is an act of war. A New Normal war.
It appears to be the first time the United States has repeatedly used cyberweapons to cripple another country’s infrastructure, achieving, with computer code, what until then could be accomplished only by bombing a country or sending in agents to plant explosives. The code itself is 50 times as big as the typical computer worm, Carey Nachenberg, a vice president of Symantec, one of the many groups that have dissected the code, said at a symposium at Stanford University in April. Those forensic investigations into the inner workings of the code, while picking apart how it worked, came to no conclusions about who was responsible.
And still America continues to wage war, subverting the constitution, without any Congressional approval, and without even telling the population what is really happening. Because it is “for its own good.”
A similar process is now under way to figure out the origins of another cyberweapon called Flame that was recently discovered to have attacked the computers of Iranian officials, sweeping up information from those machines. But the computer code appears to be at least five years old, and American officials say that it was not part of Olympic Games. They have declined to say whether the United States was responsible for the Flame attack.
The “New Normal Gulf of Tonkin“:
Mr. Obama, according to participants in the many Situation Room meetings on Olympic Games, was acutely aware that with every attack he was pushing the United States into new territory, much as his predecessors had with the first use of atomic weapons in the 1940s, of intercontinental missiles in the 1950s and of drones in the past decade. He repeatedly expressed concerns that any American acknowledgment that it was using cyberweapons – even under the most careful and limited circumstances – could enable other countries, terrorists or hackers to justify their own attacks.
“We discussed the irony, more than once,” one of his aides said. Another said that the administration was resistant to developing a “grand theory for a weapon whose possibilities they were still discovering.” Yet Mr. Obama concluded that when it came to stopping Iran, the United States had no other choice.
If Olympic Games failed, he told aides, there would be no time for sanctions and diplomacy with Iran to work. Israel could carry out a conventional military attack, prompting a conflict that could spread throughout the region.
Some call it irony, others collateral damage where people lose everything, including their lives. Semantics.
Remember though: they hate America for its freedoms.
Mr. Obama has repeatedly told his aides that there are risks to using – and particularly to overusing – the weapon. In fact, no country’s infrastructure is more dependent on computer systems, and thus more vulnerable to attack, than that of the United States. It is only a matter of time, most experts believe, before it becomes the target of the same kind of weapon that the Americans have used, secretly, against Iran.
And it will be a shock, SHOCK when the world retaliates against America.
Tampa Gold says:
Yes but he is our supreme leader and all that he does he does for our benefit, right?
I can hardly wait for this waste of human flesh to get voted out so we can watch the November to January meltdown as he desperately tries to cling to power.
Martial law anyone? Civil race war perhaps? Or maybe he’ll just try to kill us all by blowing up fukushima using the logic that if he can’t have it than no one else can either.
We’re dealing with a sick narcissistic fuck who will stop at nothing to keep his power.
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1st June 2012 at 12:12 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
I was a little pissed off when this hit the news, but not in any way surprised. When Iran first began reporting that they were getting hit with massive amounts of cyber attacks I naturally thought of Israel.
Which naturally made me think of of the USA. They are just confirming what I already suspected.
Fucking warmongering douchebags. I can’t believe all 3 facets of our government have failed so completely.
Frankly, he should be impeached for this.
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1st June 2012 at 12:23 pm
ragman says:
TampaX1000! We are dealing with an evil sociopath. The Wall Street meltdown today does not bode well for his re-election. Desperate assholes do desperate things and I simply can’t imagine what this POS is considering. Whatever it is, it won’t be good for the great unwashed.
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1st June 2012 at 12:29 pm
Administrator says:
“Through a set of economic policies designed to bail out and subsidize failed and often fraudulent corporate enterprises, while actively promoting a false sense of confidence to support those policies, the public has become exposed, by those very people entrusted to protect them, to dangerously high levels of hidden counterparty risks.
The cautionary functions of the media, the political class, and the regulatory bodies have been routinely directed, distorted, and even silenced for the benefit of a highly compromised and increasingly self-serving elite. And this corruption has begun feeding on its own momentum, resulting in increasingly blatant examples of deception, distortion, and outright theft.
This is crony capitalism, and its inevitable credibility trap.”
Jesse
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1st June 2012 at 12:40 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
Oh Admin?…
I’m “Like”ing these comments but nothing’s happening.
Maybe Barry’s comin’ for YOU!!!
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1st June 2012 at 12:52 pm
ron says:
You say terrorist,he says freedom fighter.
Many say we well have a war with Iran before the elections,the result well be crazy oil prices that well destroy whatever is left of our economy.The resulting riots and civil unrest well be an excuse for martial law.The governments actions show they are getting ready for something like this.
My version of how Obama well stay in power.
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1st June 2012 at 12:58 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Tampa, finally! A reason to vote for the white obama. Still won’t do it, but at least it’s a reason.
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1st June 2012 at 1:27 pm
Kill Bill says:
I wouldnt doubt if Obummer ordered that but I have read where some of the cptr xprts said this malware flame w32 could be five to eight years old.
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1st June 2012 at 5:27 pm
Zarathustra says:
Isn’t it great to on the side of the good guys?
Israeli MP Calls for Sending All Human Rights Activists to Work Camps
‘I Would Imprison Them All for Incitement’
by Jason Ditz, May 31, 2012
“All human rights activists should be imprisoned and transported to camps we are building.”
It’s a stark quote made all the starker by coming during an immigration committee meeting in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. The quote is from MP Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, a member of the ruling coalition with the Kadima Party.
MP Shamalov-Berkovich
Israel has been caught up in the latest of its myriad imagined “existential threats” lately, this time centering around illegal immigration. Black migrants are the targets, and in Tel Aviv MPs whipped up a riot that had ralliers beating Africans in the streets.
Since then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the mass arrest of the black “infiltrators,” saying that they could “cause the negotiation of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,” even though their numbers are estimated at less than 1 percent of Israel’s overall population. Israel started building prison-work-camps based on a 2009 proposal, that would have them trading manual labor for food and “shelter” inside the prison.
And this is where Shamalov-Berkovich enters into things, as a member of the “Lobby for Citizens Affected by Illegal Infiltrators.” She blasted human rights groups today on the floor of the Knesset who have been criticizing both the camps and the riots, terming them “hypocrites” and insisting that given half a chance they’d create a massive work camp system of their own to imprison the Ultra-Orthodox. “I would imprison them all for incitement and for pitting Jews against Jews,” she added.
Shamalov-Berkovich insisted that Israel’s illegal blacks “are living like animals” and that they are “compromising the security of the state and its citizens.” Even given the Israeli government’s extremely far-right positions, it would be politically difficult (and diplomatically costly) for them to mass arrest every single human rights activist and force them into work camps.
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1st June 2012 at 6:05 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Blowback is gonna be a real bitch here, as our energy/food computer systems are pretty wide open.
Also, isn’t it more than a little creepy that Obama feels he can basically declare war against a sovereign nation without Congressional approval?
And that he is, in secret, poring over profiles of “terrorists” before he orders a drone hit? Some of these people are freaking US citizens?
Who the fuck is this guy?
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1st June 2012 at 6:15 pm
Zarathustra says:
HZK, it isn’t terrorism when we do it because we are special. You know, the shining city on the hill, and shit.
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1st June 2012 at 6:22 pm
hef says:
The question remains. When will the sheep wake up? When is enough enough?
Is it a never-ending cycle of a giant douche vs. a turd sandwich every election cycle? After 4 disappointing years of Romney and more freedoms evaporated will we then elect Barney Frank and do the dance all over?
I’ve reached my breaking point, when will the majority?
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1st June 2012 at 9:42 pm
AWD says:
Idiot humans, best known of which is President Obama, make the best cyber weapons. Ha.
Bigger Than Flame, Stronger Than Stuxnet: Why ‘Idiot’ Humans Are Best Cyber Weapon
Lee Ferran | ABC News
For the second time in as many years, computer security experts have hailed the discovery of a new cyber weapon as one that could change the face of cyber warfare forever.
Flame, publicly disclosed earlier this week and found in dozens of computers in Iran and the Middle East, is thought to be the biggest cyber espionage program ever, capable of recording just about everything that is done on an infected system, all while staying hidden from the user. Before that, Stuxnet, an offensive cyber weapon found in 2010, was reportedly powerful enough to cause physical damage to an Iranian nuclear facility – a feat that had never been accomplished before. Both of these cyber weapons, experts estimate, cost millions of dollars and many years in research and development, most likely under the direction of some nation’s intelligence agency.
READ: The Smoke Over Flame: Who Is Behind Super Cyber Spy Tool?
But as for how to get that advanced code loaded onto the right computers, some of the best hackers in the world may have been forced to rely on a decidedly low-tech but generally dependable ally: human carelessness.
A super cyber weapon is no good if it can’t get to the target networks and to do that sometimes requires a window to be left open by either a spy on the inside or, more commonly, regular rubes who don’t realize they’re opening their systems up to a world of hurt.
As The New York Times reported today, in Stuxnet’s case, the powerful worm had to get into the Iranian nuclear facility’s system, but the system was air gapped – meaning it was not connected to any outside networks – so there was no way to hack it directly. Instead, someone would have to physically bring the worm in, either on purpose or without knowing it.
“That was our holy grail,” one of the people involved in the Stuxnet operation told The Times. “It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think much about the thumb drive in their hand.”
According to Liam O Murchu, operations manager for the security response team at the U.S.-based cyber security firm Symantec and one of the first to analyze the Stuxnet code, that’s likely just how it happened: Someone who had been tricked into downloading Stuxnet onto their personal computer unknowingly transferred the malware to a thumb drive and then, after heading to work at the supposedly secure Iranian facility, plugged the thumb drive into the internal network, letting Stuxnet loose to wreak its havoc – all without knowing a thing was wrong.
READ: Could Cyber Superweapon Stuxnet Be Turned on U.S.?
Similarly, reports by several international cyber security firms said that analysis of the Flame code suggests it’s designed in part to be able to transfer secretly from one network to another by thumb drive as well.
But carelessness when it comes to thumb drives is not reserved for overseas users. Last June, the Department of Homeland Security ran a test in which it secretly dumped computer discs and thumb drives into the parking lots of U.S. government buildings and private contractors, according to a Bloomberg report. The test found that 60 percent of people who picked up the devices plugged them into their office computers – potentially compromising the entire internal network. If the drive or CD had an official seal on it, the number shot up to 90 percent plugged in.
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1st June 2012 at 9:50 pm
DaveL says:
Who knew that the “thousand points of lights” were pixels on a computer screen. And if you’re looking in Barack…Fuck you!
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1st June 2012 at 9:54 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
“Who the fuck is this guy?”
That IS the $64 trillion (give or take a few) question, isn’t it???
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1st June 2012 at 10:51 pm
Mary Malone says:
Our Nobel Peace Prize Prez is one violent dude, isn’t he?
Orders numerous cyber-terrorism attacks against another sovereign country. And lets not forget all the Iranian scientists knocked off in broad daylight.
Or the kill list that the Nobel Peace Prize Prez mulls over before he gives the final word on who to blow to smithereens that day.
Signing the NDAA that gives him permission to assassinate Americans at will.
Make no mistake – Obama is a psycho. He enjoys killing people. Gets off on it. And he’s not going to stop at Americas shores if he gets another term.
Those drones above American cities are not measuring the weather. They are being used to spy on us – and when the Peace Prize Pres gets the first opportunity – he’s going to give the thumbs up to kill Americans.
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1st June 2012 at 11:27 pm
Novista says:
Countermeasures, good for infrastructure
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57443738-1/meet-the-little-box-that-could-stop-flame-and-stuxnet/?tag=nl.e703
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1st June 2012 at 11:51 pm
Ron says:
I bet when we start droning Syria and fighting Iran,no declaring war well happen.
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1st June 2012 at 12:58 am
Scream Cheese says:
c’mon Zara, those poor guys just need some living raum. They really do need to deal with their african-immigant-problem and solve that question once and for all. Just imagine how much it will cost them to liquidate the detainees who aren’t strong enough to work productively.
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1st June 2012 at 1:15 am