Sensible Erection | Iran nuclear facilities 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC malware

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Iran nuclear facilities 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC malware

quote [ In 2010, Iran's nuclear facilities were infiltrated by Stuxnet, the centrifuge-wrecking malware allegedly cooked up by the US government. Now they seem to have been hit again by a bizarre attack forcing nuclear plant workstations to pump the song Thunderstruck by heavy metal band AC/DC through the speakers at full volume. ]

I THOROUGHLY APPROVE OF THIS SHIT

[sci&tech] [by pleaides@1:46pmGMT] [+10 Funny]

Comments

pleaides said @ 1:49pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:2]
Ever wondered what it would be like to work in a nuclear weapons lab?

Here you go :)

bruceski said @ 5:08pm GMT on 24th Jul

pleaides said @ 11:59pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
That was fun :)

spazm said @ 2:09pm GMT on 24th Jul
Thunderstux!

graham said @ 2:13pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:2 Interesting]
only reason i'll be watching the Olympics:

Viper said @ 2:27pm GMT on 24th Jul
Except of course, she won't be at the Olympics as she is still in Junior level

pleaides said @ 2:33pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
Congratulations, you just robbed the games of 24,435 viewers :)

mrcucumber said @ 4:39pm GMT on 24th Jul

rangerx said @ 5:54pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Funny]
She's 19. Back away Mr. Bear.....

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 10:25pm GMT on 28th Jul

graham said @ 9:09pm GMT on 24th Jul
well, shit.

ckfahrenheit said @ 7:38am GMT on 25th Jul
in that case this will be the first olympics I'm going to ignore

sanepride said @ 4:01pm GMT on 24th Jul
The force is strong in this one.

zenviper said @ 4:00am GMT on 25th Jul

antares said @ 9:32am GMT on 25th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
So why wasn't this a post by itself? Better than that - a SITE of itself.
And hte Michelle Jenneke fan club and tshirts are where?

maryyugo said @ 1:00am GMT on 26th Jul
Leno's version:

sanepride said @ 4:03pm GMT on 24th Jul
It'll be interesting to see what happens when enterprising Iranian hackers get some payback.

rangerx said @ 5:54pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
Enterprising Iranian hackers will almost certainly turn on their own country.

sanepride said @ 6:12pm GMT on 24th Jul
...'cause inside every Iranian is a 'merican trying to get out, eh?

foobar said @ 7:44pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:2]
Just the embassies.

rangerx said @ 7:50pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
No. inside every Iranian is an Iranian trying to get out, who is sick of Mullahs and Achmedinnerjacket fucking things up for the rest of them.

Aside from a layer of pond scum floating on the surface, Iran is an amazing country, and the people are pretty damn cool, at least the ones I have met.

sanepride said @ 8:57pm GMT on 24th Jul
If only this were true things would be a lot simpler.
Recent civil unrest gives the impression that there is popular discontent with the regime, but the dissent is concentrated mainly among the educated elite. Unfortunately this demographic is nowhere near a majority of the population, who are largely poor, illiterate, devout and largely loyal to the Islamic republic. Yes there is a lot of discontent with Ahmadinejad, not only among the populace but among the higher leadership, but it is believed that in general most Iranians retain loyalty and faith to their government as a whole.

Ahmadinejad said @ 9:12pm GMT on 24th Jul
There are no dragons in Iran.

chold_numa said @ 10:00pm GMT on 24th Jul
Sure, but things will change by themselves over time if the US and Israel don't interfere. It's not like Afghanistan where they try to shut down schools for girls, or Iraq where the elections are rigged, or Saudi where there's a massive gap between rich and poor. Iran, with encouragement, could be a more modern, democratic nation. You'd have to accept however, that their democracy wouldn't be like the US and that their interests wouldn't always align with US or NATO.

If the CIA hadn't deposed of Mosaddegh, it's likely that Iran would be much friendlier to the West now and that there would be a more moderate religious leadership which had less of a role in politics. Also, while poor, rural people support the religious conservatives who run the country, the same could also be said of the US.

sanepride said @ 1:41am GMT on 25th Jul
Absolutely.

tbt10f said @ 10:01pm GMT on 24th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
Although not known for his hard hitting investigative journalism, Rick Steves in Iran seems to indicate (at least the people he was able to talk to) that the people on the street are not happy with their leadership but are powerless to do anything about it. They certainty don't seem to have a hatred of Americans by any stretch.

arrowhen said @ 5:01am GMT on 25th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
I've met a handful of Iranian immigrants over the years and they were, without exception, awesome people.

Naruki said @ 2:09am GMT on 25th Jul [Score:3 Funny]
If the mysterious hackers had only used a Metallica song, Iran could have been sued into submission!

ckfahrenheit said @ 4:23pm GMT on 25th Jul [Score:1 WTF]