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Stuxnet False Flag Launched For Web Takeover
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 27, 2010
Israel and the United States have emerged as the prime suspects behind the Stuxnet worm attack, which has infected the Iranian nuclear plant at Bushehr, following the discovery that a “wealthy group or nation” must have been responsible for the malware assault.
On Sunday, Infowars speculated that Stuxnet was a false flag intended to both target Iran and provide a pretext for the implementation of draconian cybersecurity legislation.
That suspicion has been greatly enhanced by new evidence which proves the virus was “created by experts working for a country or a well-funded private group,” according to Liam O Murchu, manager of security response operations at Symantec Corp.
“A number of governments with sophisticated computer skills would have the ability to create such a code. They include China, Russia, Israel, Britain, Germany and the United States,” states the Associated Press report, clearly indicating that the US, Israel, Great Britain, or a combination of the three were behind the attack.
The Stuxnet worm is now “rampaging through Iran,” causing havoc to the country’s industrial infrastructure, having already infected at least 30,000 IP addresses.
There would be no motivation whatsoever for Russia to be behind the attack because they have helped fuel the Bushehr reactor. China has backed US calls for sanctions in response to the nuclear plant, but it can hardly be claimed that the Chinese have aggressively opposed its construction and fueling. Indeed, China has been a regular exporter of nuclear technology and assistance to Iran in recent years.
That leaves three prime suspects, all of whom have followed identical foreign policies in vehemently opposing Iran’s self-proclaimed goal of developing peaceful nuclear energy.
Top globalists such as Richard Falkenrath, a principal at Chertoff Group and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, already blamed Israel for the attack before evidence emerged that the virus was the work of a sophisticated nation state.
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If the United States’ involvement in the attack was to be confirmed, it would completely discredit the foundation of cybersecurity legislation, which is being promoted as a means of defending against cyber attacks launched by terrorists and other nation states.
However, if any US involvement remains concealed, Stuxnet will be hyped as a primary reason for rushing the passage of the amalgamation of the Lieberman and Rockefeller bills, which as we have documented, have little to do with security and everything to do with shutting down free speech on the Internet, despite the fact that Stuxnet was distributed through a physical USB device and not via the public Internet.
Lieberman’s version of the original bill includes language that would hand President Obama the power to shut down parts of the world wide web for at least four months with no congressional oversight. The combined version appears to shift that responsibility to DHS, who under the pretext of a national emergency could block all Internet traffic to the U.S. from certain countries, and close down specific hubs and networks, creating an ominous precedent for government regulation and control over the Internet.
Cybersecurity legislation is being promoted as a vital tool to defend the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber- terrorism. However, as we have highlighted, the threat from cyber-terrorists to the U.S. power grid or water supply is minimal. The perpetrators of an attack on such infrastructure would have to have direct physical access to the systems that operate these plants to cause any damage. Any perceived threat from the public Internet to these systems is therefore completely contrived and strips bare what many fear is the real agenda behind cybersecurity – to enable the government to regulate free speech on the Internet.
Fears that cybersecurity legislation could be used to stifle free speech were heightened when Senator Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley that the real motivation behind the bill was to mimic the Communist Chinese system of Internet policing.
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“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” said Lieberman.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.
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39 Responses to “Stuxnet False Flag Launched For Web Takeover”
September 27th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Lieberman is going for his big payday. He’s got four more years to do his masters bidding. Go joe.
jimjones Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 9:29 am
hmmm let’s see.. what nationality is lieberman?
cavedweller22 Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Lets see, I am not a rocket scientist, but, here goes. From my limited understanding the gov has at least 2 networks, one that is secure and one that is connected to the public internet. So my guess is, if they are not properly securing the public side, then so be it, for some reason I do not believe they are not protecting their systems. We already know that public utilities are not connected to the public internet. So, call me ignorant, but what exactly will the cyber terrorism legislation accomplish is respects to what I just surmised? Like I mentioned, I may not be the brightest light-bulb in the cookie jar, but, what the heck?
Sunny Lovetts Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Wow, okay…
Its official the shit has now begun hitting the fan.
RAZR Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
When they try to take over the internet just be like me and completely shut your self off from their technology
don’t tweet, Facebook, Google, hell throw your computer away , we can go back to being without computers and cell phones etc. just disconnect
that will put a link in their tails if enough of us do that. If we don’t connect to the net they have no way of keeping tabs right . This is just common since
go back to ham radios, shortage etc. That they can’t track so much
Sunny Lovetts Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Wait wait wait…
Can someone explain this picture to me?
WTF
(there are spaces at the dots)
www . indiastudychannel . com/gallery/16159-strange-photos-tsunami-drowning-victim . aspx
WHAT THE HELL? It was on some random website.
Kinda creepy…
andrew james Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
It looks like a dead person.
CyBerndt Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Very creepy with the NWO shirt.
3ogla Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
is the shirt just a coincidence? wow
September 27th, 2010 at 9:32 am
coming soon to a computer near you.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Yea if you run winblows, bring it on, I’m behind a router loaded with OpenBSD and run Slackware on my main desktop.
Loki44 Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
There ya go….Most people now days have an old computer sitting in the closet, bring it out and install OpenBSD and put your boxes behind it..For the average windows user setting up PF/Firewall at the front end may seem difficult at first but OpenBSD has a mailing list you can get on along with forums that will help you out.. OpenBSD has excellent how tooo guides at openbsd.org that covers everything from installation to advanced networking & firewalling
September 27th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Now I am not the brightest bulb in the room but some things just don’t make sense.
First, how is this worm spreading. Most sheeple would assume it is from the internet, but is their nuclear facilities connected to the internet? I think not.
Is the rest of their industrial applications online? I think not.
Then how is the worm spreading?
Someone would have to infect each facility or industry separately. Sounds like sabotage to me.
This has nothing to do with the internet but fear mongering.
We must start telling them that we do not believe them anymore and leave the internet alone. No kill switch.
Of course these are just my opinions.
cavedweller22 Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I guess I’m part of your “DIM” bulb group, I too agree. Infecting that # of systems could be accomplished quite easily from centralized management server, or so my research indicates. Infect the server and push out to all systems, which has nothing to do with the internet.
RAZR Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Disconnect. Unplug
September 27th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Iran should come out saying that they know it was us and Israel who did this and that we should safeguard what little freedoms we have left. I ran would have a better chance of communicating with the world if they publicly sympathized with us Americans as we are being oppressed willingly.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I do not beieI do not believe one word of this.
For example, refer to Bruce Schneier’s book “Applied Cryptology” and it’s comments about the NSA. Basically, the NSA finds it has little need to brute force security, as suggested by this “Manhattan Project” Worm, they say there is always some simple exploit available that negates the need for complex high power solutions.
For the cost of what we’ve been told (large national level R&D fast tracked worm) it’d be easier and faster to pay someone off at the facility to sabotage it, then use that to spread fear for Obama to use his Internet Off Button, or Paul Vixie gets to use/justify his DNS RPZ to censor the internet.
People read and learned there is no threat to world infrastructure due to internet attacks. Worse yet, the engineers involved know damn well it’s true. Now this lie is being spread to try to make people fear such attacks again.
It’s that simple.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:32 am
This is WHY I run Linux not winblows. The source code for MSDOS has been “out in the wild” for years, and the source code for windows got leaked a couple years ago. I’m surprised it took THIS long for a virus this nasty to get out. However it’s not that nasty really, it’s not using a mutation engine. If it was they wouldn’t be able to track it.
RAZR Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
disconnect stop feeding them all your info this is how they collect info about us
September 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am
I hope people will start downloading and installing Linux now….. Maybe people will now see how bad Winblows REALLY is… How many major viruses will it take for people to realize how BAD Winblows is…
Morgan Le Fay Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Although Windows is likely one of the more risky OS systems to use, do you not think that if enough started using Linux or one of the other alternatives, it wouldn’t be infiltrated and hijacked just as easily? I don’t know enough about Linux to really say much, but if the government is hell-bent on shutting down the net or launching a massive wave of virus attacks; it’s my guess if enough people used Linux to merit attention, it could be just as easily targeted.
Morgan Le Fay Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
It probably is worth checking out though, and if nothing else could buy some time, perhaps.
TechiePatriot Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
There are millions of people running Linux – including major corporations. In fact the USPS is converting to Linux. How many Linux viruses have you heard of? For that matter how many Mac Viruses have you heard of – it’s a very popular OS too. The thing about Linux is it’s totally OPEN SOURCE. Anyone can look at the source code. There are MORE eyes on the code in Linux that in Windows. Patches and fixes get done sooner and released faster than windows. Why? Because there ARE more people looking at it. Could anyone find the security holes in it because it is open source? Yes, but the problem would get found quick and fast and a patch released faster than Microsoft could do it. Why? Because the first thing Microsoft does when a security hole is found and reported is deny there is a problem, they drag out admitting there is a problem and making a fix. Just ask the people that have reported security holes, been given the cold shoulder and decided to release the information on the exploit.
Loki44 Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
This is true… Sadly I might scare some windows users. Check out BUGTRAQ, I believe the website is securityfocus.com – Look at the database of known windows exploits and compare that with the time windows offers a patch. Look at the recently found exploits.
September 27th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Guys, without getting a peek inside the plants affected, I seriously doubt anything is running windows. Most power plants, manufacturing plants, etc, etc, are running custom built for task unix systems. Beyond that, no one has these closed systems connected to the internet, at all.
As for linux, maybe stop and pick your favorite distro, then look at the security patch list. Linux is an EXTREMELY vulnerable OS unless you know how to lock it down. Yes, by default the system makes it hard for you the user to mess things up, but it’s quite easy for an untrusted source to get in. Heck, installing a simple drive can sometimes require repacking a kernel, or compiling the driver binary yourself. Without an indepth knowledge of the system, this can be very dangerous.
Windows gets hit because :
More people use it
Most of those people are morons when it comes to security (stop clicking popups!)
It’s a closed OS meaning only microsoft can/will patch it, we as linux has the entire userbase
You might also want to know the difference between a virus and a worm. In either case, this screams of inside job for a few reasons:
Since a power plant or such is a closed, unique system, you’ve got to have inside knowledge of the operating system you are targeting. This isn’t as simple as download a hacktool from some warez site, this would mostly require hard coding on the fly.
Even if you some how found the exact model of system and os being used, as it’s more than likely a closed system, you need someone to plant the worm. I’d suspect, if this is what they say it is, an infected flash key, witting or unwittingly inserted into mission critical systems.
Isn’t it funny that maybe a year a go the neocons were convincing us to be worried about this type of cyber attack?
CyBerndt Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
It’s a “Windows-specific computer worm” so they where using PCs. Since it is written in different programming languages including C and C++ I my am eager to find out what other compilers was used because we may just see it pop up on our Linux Boxes.
RAZR Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Disconnect from their internet don’t feed them on Facebook etc when they shut it down don’t reconnect
To their internet. Just find other sources such as HAM radio, SW etc
Loki44 Reply:
September 27th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
The O/S is probably a variant of Helios/ p-9 used in voltage regulation and various other task. Helios9 is an operating system with kernel & userland, therefore exploitable with the write code instructions.
I doubt windows would suffice running power plants.
September 27th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
*Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in Assembly Language*
It’s been going through my mind for a couple of years now, and since I have a few people’s attention for the moment there is something very troubling going and it has been for quite a while.
Now, this is apart from the fact that DMCA absolutely forbids taking apart the code (reverse engineering) to see what it does. If that isn’t scary enough for you here is something to think about:
WHERE ARE YOUR COMPUTERS BEING BUILT? Back in the 80′s it would be Texas or California, or even Japan. And then the slippery slope started.
Production moved into Mexico. And Singapore. And Taiwan.
And then, it went into PRC, the People’s Republic of China. Oh, yes! The prices went down and the whole world went to flocking to these cheap PC’s. Chances are that the DELL that you bought is 95% built in the PRC, perhaps assembled in Mexico and sold to you in the good old US of A.
Well, you might say, that’s ok, I can accept the technology jobs moving over there, because I have a cushy job at Head Office in Chicago.
But that’s NOT the point. And the Operating System is not the point either. Nor is the BIOS the point.
The point is that the individual components, from the CPU to USB controller to the Video card, each and every little piece, has its own little set of chips. And THESE chips have nothing whatsoever to do with the OS, whether it’s a home-brew Linux kernel or Windows 95B. in the sense that a device driver interfaces with the chips in the hardware, and communicates with the operating system.
Back in the 60′s, some very talented programmers were able to make extremely efficient and useful programs working with very, very limited space. Many of these were less than a thousand bytes long. Memory was at a premium (think, thousands of dollars per kilobyte of memory) in those days, so efficient programming was a very important goal. Nowadays, with eight gigabytes of memory on a USB stick going for $20.99 (source: NewEgg.com), it is so common to see programs with megabytes of “nulls” (0×00) for “future” patching.
But, going back to that idea of efficient programming, believe me, it still goes on. Look at Gibson (GRC.com). He puts out teeny tiny itsy bitsy little efficient programs that work, do it right, save your bacon, butters the toast and makes coffee at the same time, and does it as freeware. The man is talented. But, he doesn’t have a monopoly on talent.
Let’s add in ulterior motive now.
Hmmm, the Chinese are building components for all the computers in use on Planet Earth. Isn’t that kind of like the Cardassians of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, allowing the Bajorans to build all their technology? Do you think for a moment that in a security conscious environment, with the TSA and the DHS and the PAT RIOT Act, and the terrorist boogeyman, that the spooks at the NSA and the CIA would really, but *really* allow the Chinese build the hardware that is so pervasive, in EVERY aspect of your lives, that if you pop the cover off any component, any remote control, any cellphone, any little bleeping little gadget, you find that it is made in China?
Here is the scary part. Remember that all those little chips, and I’m not talking about discrete components like, resistors or capacitors or coils, but the integrated circuits that contain millions upon millions of transistors, gates, and you name it, these chips ALL contain their own code.
Yessireee, bob. All of those little IC’s and chips have their own code. Code that is necessary to function and operate the component.
What is to stop the Chinese, or the NSA, or the FBR, or the CEA (ref: The President’s Analyst [1967]) or whatever spook organisation to “oversee” the assembly of code that will simply do the bidding of that organisation.
Imagine, one day all the computers in the computers with chips built in China, suddenly go haywire? Computers that are used for e-commerce. Computers that are used for control grids. Computers that control avionics. Computers that control pacemakers. Computers that run your Telescreen.
Think of the consequences? The mind staggers. Think that the fall of the dollar would provoke Martial Law? Hah! Consider the enormous chaos following the fall of the Internet and communications networks.
Get ready for your FEMA camp, kids! Chairman Oh BOW Mao is getting everything ready…
September 27th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
That was only a beta test. There will be a total Internet shutdown coming soon. It will be a also be a beta test to push everyone into Internet II.
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September 27th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Evil Zionist Jews invent destruction…The atomic bomb, GMO’s, fluoride, aspartame, H1N1 Vaccine, 9/11, and now Stuxnet. I know many Jews are intelligent but have any of their actions, inventions or developments led to anything positive and beneficial to mankind? None that I can think of…People lie if they say they don’t hate JEWS just a little bit. I understand logic trumps gut reactions, but I am leaning towards my gut with this stuff.
Ancient Romans- aqueducts, concrete harbors, roads, best standing armies, agoras, organization
Americans- Man on the Moon, Constitutional Bill of Rights, skyscrapers, automobile assembly line, airplane technology
Ancient Greeks- Democracy, contribution to Doric/Ionic/Corinthian Order Architecture, Greek City States, Philosophy, Pythagorean Theorem, human centered society.
Arabs- invented Algebra, first law books by Hammurabi, made great advancements in medicine and astronomy.
September 27th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Worms, Trojans, etc.. have been out there since DOS. I don’t believe they will shut down the web because just about every corp uses it to communicate with their clients.
I think they will limit it to certain levels and gateways that will need some sort of ID chip in your system kinda like a GPS that will allow you to access “THEIR” networks with a heavy price.
September 27th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
You can always slip on a pair of gloves and buy paper, envelope and stamps and anonymously mail anything to anyone you would like–without breaking any laws (as long as what you are mailing is legal.)
It has always puzzled me why we should treat the net any different … however, I can see why crooks, extortionists and government may feel differently.
September 27th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
And, I don’t agree that anyone with even a wee bit of sense did this … it only warns iran and warns them to increase their security … only a dumb ass idiot would have done that … well, come to think of it, it could have been the U.S. government …
September 27th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
NEWS FLASH!!!
“The Three Gunmen” from x-files were found with the Stuxnet Virus on USB thumb drive attempting to insert it into a high school computer in bum truck eqypt!
September 27th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
This must be ‘PayBack ‘ from the U.S. Shadow Government for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statements about U.S. involvement on 911 of the attacks of the WTC and the Pentagon a few days ago at the U.N. summit in New York .
Another important thingy people , the article states that the virus was distributed through a physical USB device and not via the public Internet , so why shutdown the internet ?
And the other factor here is How Do We Know That This Stuxnet worm even exists in the first place ? And if it did , How Do We Know That It Has Caused That Much Damage To The Iranian Industrial Infrastructure, having already infected at least 30,000 IP addresses ? Because our Mainstream Media is telling us so ? Oh , Our Mainstream Media would never LIE to us , now would they ?
September 27th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
So right. People this is huge this is the quite beginning of the “Event” that we all can feel is about to occur in Oct.-Nov. All my red flags are up, Free is I and WE because we know right is God given and thus responsibility is man taken.
September 27th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I’m guessing the code of this worm is on the infected servers, yes? Imagine if they released the source code to the world, Stuxnet would fast become obsolete as a cyber weapon — in that governments would quickly build defenses against it.
September 27th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Like I said on the other thread about ‘UN creates E.T Greeter.’
This is not hard to figure out…
1) A highly specialized, heavily encrypted and funded worm is found to be specifically trageting Seimens-based firmware/software found in industrial computer systems (like nuke plants).
2) 60% of infections are in Iran.
3) The Iranian dictator/Hitler is in Washington being butt-kissed by Obama.
4) Symantec says expertise implies state involvement.
5) One day later (A.M.) Iran confirms plant disrupted.
6) Same day (P.M.) some rather suspect ex nuke commanders come out at National Press Club and claim that ‘the aliens’ can shut down nukes.
7) Same day U.N. appoints somebody to ‘meet and greet’ the ‘aliens’
Get a new script guys!!! You are a busted flush.