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>if you programmed the seeks on a large disk drive you could get it to play 'music' of a sort from the resonance of the stepper motors. http://www.youtube.com/

>if you programmed the seeks on a large disk drive you could get it to play 'music' of a sort from the resonance of the stepper motors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw http://georgewhiteside.net/projects/diskette-organ/ http://georgewhiteside.net/projects/diskette-organ/ I too was really hoping they'd done this to the centrifuges. Instinctively I think this story reeks of bullshit. Not saying it didn't happen, but rather I sense deeper levels of foul play: like others have said, it feels like a distraction or misdirection. The metasploit mention is incongruous as well.

munin 14y ago
I think there are very few credible things about this story. why would the computer security people tell everyone that it was metasploit? usually, IT staff tells people very little about current or ongoing security events. why would workstations have speakers? perhaps they were internal speakers, but still. are the phrases and word choices used in the e-mail consistent with the type of person who purports to have sent the e-mail? I'd like someones more expert opinion here on whether an Iranian person would say "maxed out", for example. and finally, why would a real nuclear scientist risk death and imprisonment to tell an antivirus company that someone had compromised their computers to play AC/DC?
- Steko 14y ago
  The workers at Iran's nuclear facilities are free to just do whatever the hell they want now and if they get busted they can blame it on US/Israeli hackers.
  - maayank 14y ago
    Sounds to me like the most plausible explanation so far. Some connected employee/s breached internal IT security protocol by transferring music to their workstations, maybe even being caught at a night shift blasting music. They tried to cover it up with some stories and it got out of hand. I'm serious, I think anyone who's been in (any) military capacity can see such a thing happening.
tptacek 14y ago
Every time I come to any conclusion about what's happening with Iranian computers, I'm proven wrong weeks later. It is nuts what is going on here. I agree: playing AC/DC on nuclear facility computers sounds too theatrical to be real. Which probably means it was a Sepultura/Muppets mashup and not AC/DC.
- Steko 14y ago
  The speakers blared Thuderstruck this time Iranians, next time it will be a Creed/Nickleback marathon. Don't be that country.
  - lancefisher 14y ago
    Conan O'Brien just stole your joke.
    - vampirechicken 14y ago
      And I posted it an hour before this guy. It's an easy joke progression.
      - Steko 14y ago
        Your comment is showing 2 hours after mine, but you're right it's an obvious joke. When my patent is issued my lawyers will be in contact with you.
        vampirechicken 14y ago
        I will send my cybermen to deal with your lawyers.
- mjwalshe 14y ago
  Or some one got caught by the vice police with Infidel Music on there pc and decided to blame the great satan.
voltagex_ 14y ago
This isn't Mikko Hypponen's sense of humour - I'd say it's real, even if it is ridiculous.
- ktizo 14y ago
  Could be a faked email by someone winding him up.

munin 14y ago

I think there are very few credible things about this story. why would the computer security people tell everyone that it was metasploit? usually, IT staff tells people very little about current or ongoing security events. why would workstations have speakers? perhaps they were internal speakers, but still. are the phrases and word choices used in the e-mail consistent with the type of person who purports to have sent the e-mail? I'd like someones more expert opinion here on whether an Iranian person would say "maxed out", for example. and finally, why would a real nuclear scientist risk death and imprisonment to tell an antivirus company that someone had compromised their computers to play AC/DC?

Steko 14y ago
The workers at Iran's nuclear facilities are free to just do whatever the hell they want now and if they get busted they can blame it on US/Israeli hackers.
- maayank 14y ago
  Sounds to me like the most plausible explanation so far. Some connected employee/s breached internal IT security protocol by transferring music to their workstations, maybe even being caught at a night shift blasting music. They tried to cover it up with some stories and it got out of hand. I'm serious, I think anyone who's been in (any) military capacity can see such a thing happening.

tptacek 14y ago

Every time I come to any conclusion about what's happening with Iranian computers, I'm proven wrong weeks later. It is nuts what is going on here. I agree: playing AC/DC on nuclear facility computers sounds too theatrical to be real. Which probably means it was a Sepultura/Muppets mashup and not AC/DC.

Steko 14y ago
The speakers blared Thuderstruck this time Iranians, next time it will be a Creed/Nickleback marathon. Don't be that country.
- lancefisher 14y ago
  Conan O'Brien just stole your joke.
  - vampirechicken 14y ago
    And I posted it an hour before this guy. It's an easy joke progression.
    - Steko 14y ago
      Your comment is showing 2 hours after mine, but you're right it's an obvious joke. When my patent is issued my lawyers will be in contact with you.
      - vampirechicken 14y ago
        I will send my cybermen to deal with your lawyers.
mjwalshe 14y ago
Or some one got caught by the vice police with Infidel Music on there pc and decided to blame the great satan.

voltagex_ 14y ago

This isn't Mikko Hypponen's sense of humour - I'd say it's real, even if it is ridiculous.

ktizo 14y ago
Could be a faked email by someone winding him up.