Stuxnet, a computer virus which was created and launched by American and Isreali scientists took control of 1000 centrifuges at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz sometime in 2009, causing them to malfunction. This amounts to 1/5th of Iran’s nuclear capacity, and could delay their creating a bomb until 2015. Evidence for this virus being deliberately targetted at Iran lies in the map below –

According to The Guardian -The experts agree we are now moving into a “third age” of cyber crime, where there are political, economic and military ways in which the internet can be exploited – and malware can be used – to gain advantage by foreign states.

There have been numerous attacks in the past which could be said to have possible military, political or economic motives – many of which are outlined in this  interesting and brief history of cybercrime

It’s interesting to compare this case to that of  Gary Mckinnon – the teenager (well he was at the time) with Asbergers who stands accussed of the biggest hack of the US military computer system of all time – although he claims he was looking for UFOs and the hack was all a mistake. He is currently (still!) awaiting extradition to the USA.

So the US government wants the UK to send a ‘mental needs’ teenager to the US for doing a hack against them; while they simultaneously liase with that bastard of a state Israel to engineer a worm to bring down a fifth of Iran’s nuclear capacity. Yet another example of how the powerful prosecute the powerless for the same things that they themselves do, only with a thousand times the resources, covertly and with more deadly effect.

F*** the United States, F*** the state of Israel, oh – and you can maybe help prevent the extradition of Gary by checking out the free gary website and writing to his extradition review panel.