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This could be seen as retaliation for stuxnet, widely believed to be a joint US and Israeli creation. I wonder if the creators of stuxnet are surprised by this
by epscylonb 14y ago
This could be seen as retaliation for stuxnet, widely believed to be a joint US and Israeli creation.
I wonder if the creators of stuxnet are surprised by this. We tend to think of cyber warfare as being less harmful than the conventional kind. But could Iran doubling down on online security be more dangerous in the long run?.
- pliny 14y agoCould Iran filtering the internet be more dangerous than a conventional war between Iran and Israel or Iran and the US? No, absolutely not.
- epscylonb 14y agoI chuckled, the point I was trying to make is that I think this may make a conventional war more likely. The iranian regime seems pretty adept at holding on to power, and the ramifications of online warfare seem to helping them.
- shimon_e 14y agoThe far east seems more likely to explode. If you have been following the news going on in that region. China/Taiwan vs Japan (Islands) Hong Kong vs China (British Hong Kong flag and related anti-PRC demonstrations) South Korea vs North Korea (Missiles) Japan vs North Korea (Military threats) If a war was to break out in the far east it wouldn't take long to get to world war status as America will be pulled into any war involving Japan or South Korea.
- tisme 14y agoIt's pretty risky and grim to try to predict where war will break out but my money would be on Pakistan/India. Extra nasty because both are atomic powers.
- pm90 14y ago>Extra nasty because both are atomic powers That is exactly why there will be no war between Pakistan and India. It just cannot happen. If they do fight a nuclear war, the entire region will be irreversibly damaged. In fact, the possession of nuclear weapons has actually prevented conventional wars from taking place, although skirmishes do take place quite often. Although the tensions do go high when another terrorist attack hits one of the major cities, it has yet to have caused an actual war
- jlgreco 14y agoThis strikes me more as an action against their own people than an action against the West. How much revenue on the internet is generated abroad by Iran?
- mc32 14y agoIt makes things less convenient but there are other entry vectors such as USB drives, Hard Drives, firmware, etc. Moreover, they could just use their local (inside Iran) assets --of course, one would probably not want to make it easy to trace back to assets, so maybe internet cafes and such.
- stephengillie 14y agoI'm starting to wonder if these Internet Fortifications are dual-purpose - keep FB and twitter out, but also keep out stuxnet and flame etc. Iran's been under an intelligence barrage for at least a decade.