Iran Admits Stuxnet Affected Their Nuclear Program

plover writes "According to this article in the Guardian, 'Ahmadinejad admitted the [Stuxnet] worm had affected Iran's uranium enrichment. "They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts," the president said. "They did a bad thing. Fortunately our experts discovered that, and today they are not able [to do that] anymore."'"

Re:Iran's plan

[aristotle-dude]

1. create virus
2. infect own computers and blame other countries for it
3. ??
4. profit

If you honestly think the Yanks pulled this off, you're an Idiot.

People in glass houses should not throw rocks. Israel already took credit for the virus.

Re:Is Stuxnet a first?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would say that the Siberian pipeline explosion of 1982 would be an earlier form of this type of attack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

Re:They did a bad thing.

[plover]

I was very surprised that he admitted it, at first. A rational leader would never confirm an attack like this that couldn't externally be proven.

But then I remembered this guy is from a different world, and isn't talking to us. He's a kleptocrat who stays in power by painting the image of a religious strongman, and talks to his ignorant power-base making it sound like his scientists gloriously smashed the meaningless virus as they would a Western fly.

So I don't know if this child-like line is a simplification made by the translator (who might have difficulty with technical language) or if this is how he normally talks to his people?

Re:Turkey is a NATO member

[WindBourne]

Obama sees Iran as a VERY real threat. That is why he is moving towards the umbrella. The problem is, that he inherited a nightmare from W.. He has been fighting against a nightmare economy, that had the jobs sucked out of for the previous 8 years, has 2 wars, created in the previous 8 years, has seen NK gotten the bomb and nothing done about it in the previous 8 years, is watching Burma building a secret nuke reactor in the previous 8 years, has a massive debt of just under 11 trillion (now just under 14 trillion) that was built up from 1980 on (though to Clinton's credit he did less than 1 trillion and left a balanced budget ), and massive failings in the economy far beyond what the global economy caused. Seeing as how you have been reading the wikileaks, you can see that the USA gov. recognizes that China views itself as being in a cold war with the USA.

So from Obama's POV, he had time to deal with Iran, while nearly everything else MUST BE DEALT WITH NOW.

OTH, Israel is working on how to stop Iran (consider today's actions), while developing a new MOAB and building missions for how and when to deliver it. You can bet that all of the middle east has given permission to Israel to flyover (including supplying fuel) to deliver these. My guess is that we will see this fireworks in about 1 year. A very real problem is that Iran is working on Chemical and biological bombs as well. Biological may be far far worse then a nuke, depending on what they use. I could see them inoculating their citizens and then hitting Israel and counting on it taking out the population EAST of them (iow, through the sunnis).