TheImmortalIronZak
TheImmortalIronZak t1_j4juz8i wrote
Reply to Zero Days (2016) - Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. [01:53:51] by Missing_Trillions
Yeah dude/dudette, Stuxnet was absolutely insane!! It was straight out of a spy novel or something. The NSA/CIA broke their backs trying to find a way to hit the Iranian process plant, then their wishes were granted due to finding a propaganda video of the plant along with high res footage of their control system on monitors as well as noticing a piece of hardware that controlled the timing. 2 days later they had a full report detailing all the running programs as well as testing to trigger the piece of hardware that controlled the on/off times. Even with the Iranian plant having air gapped systems (when your main cpu isn’t connected to the internet to maintain strict security), all they had to do was send a small ass bug all around the world which would eventually make its way to Iran & then would attack other systems until it told the “auto stop hardware” instead of running for 20 minutes at 1700 rpm it would run for 45 minutes at 3500 rpm which would literally explode all of their centrifuges which ruined whatever uranium was being processed as well as making all the machines completely useless.
Ps the goddamn IDF has always been so damn jumpy & rush everything which causes 💩 to go down. Again, goddamn that was an absolutely intense documentary.
TheImmortalIronZak t1_j4jvgft wrote
Reply to comment by charleswj in Zero Days (2016) - Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. [01:53:51] by Missing_Trillions
Absolutely is not. Most intelligence departments, Department of justice, homeland etc all have some departments with air gapped machines for security reasons. They can never be “hacked” or the like due to that. And as for the Iranian governments uranium enrichment center the air gapped machine’s control all aspects of the enrichment process, the centrifuges, etc for the same reason.