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Keep in mind that Iran has had two major data security compromises (that we know of) targeting their nuclear enrichment facilities, slowing down their timetable
by thaumaturgy 15y ago
Keep in mind that Iran has had two major data security compromises (that we know of) targeting their nuclear enrichment facilities, slowing down their timetables and costing them quite a bit of money.
If I had to come up with tactics for preventing any further problems like that, "let's look at the example from China" would certainly be on the table.
- nextparadigms 15y agoSo why are they connecting the nuclear facilities to the Internet anyway? And why can't they just built an intranet only for the nuclear facilities. Sounds like a false reason with a different agenda behind it to me.
- sliverstorm 15y agoThey aren't. If memory serves, the infection vector for Stuxnet was supposedly a flash drive.
- Desinderlase 15y agoSo why do they think that isolation from the internet will make things safer for them?
- btown 15y agoIMO it's entirely because they're worried about another Arab Spring. If they control the only Twitter and the only Faceburqa, it becomes much more difficult for protesters to organize on that scale.
- alanh 15y agoThe actual article quotes the government official as saying the Internet incites “atheism” and other supposed moral evils. :)
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- samic 15y agothe reason they want to shutdown the Internet is that they have learn that the Internet is the only weapon the youth has against them. they want to prevent Iranian people from knowing what's going on in the country and forming gatherings and assemblies against the government.