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Could Iran Wage A Cyberwar On The U.S.?
- bediger4000 14y agoHeard this during my morning drive. My impressions from hearing the "consultants" speak is that they're just trying to drum up some business via fear-mongering. My spider-sense also tingles a little, which makes me think this is part of some infernal "run-up" to a war with Iran. Empirically, I just don't buy it. Sure, Iran is a menace, but they have spent the last 50 years (yes, under the Shah as well) trying to stamp out the kind of free-form anarchism that makes the best hackers. I mean, they've got the idea of doing a heavily-snooped and censored "halal internet" for their own purposes. That sort of censorship is just not conducive to producing native black-hat hackers. Why, just the other day, there was an HN story about some Iranian who found a vuln in all the major Iranian bank's software. He notified them, got ignored, demonstrated the vuln with 30,000 back accounts, got ignored, then dumped all the bank's account info. Then left the country. Does this sound like a culture that can produce "CyberWarriors"? It does not to me. And before anyone brings it up, yes, Red China has a huge hacker/honker population. They also have a population of 1.3 billion. They have a huge population of X, for any value of X. Iran has a population of 73 million that's roundoff error in China's population. Despite the Sleeping Dragon of censorship in China, the vast population ensures plenty of every type of person. I doubt that's true for Iran.