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29Nov/101

One Iranian Nuclear Scientist Murdered, One Wounded In Attacks [UPDATED]

First the Stuxnet worm, now this:

Israelis blamed.

Wikileaked cables show that Iran may have received missiles from the Norks.

Hillary's in hot water for having urged US diplomats to spy on their counterparts at the UN, though this can't be different from the directives given by other countries to other diplomats.

Ummmm . . . this guy says Assange is funded by Soros and the CIA. And Taiwan and Tibet?

Yeah, it's true that Cass Sunstein knows how to create paranoia, by being a proto-totalitarian dick, but . . .

Last night, too, there was a DOS attack that brought down the Wikileakers' servers (in comments elsewhere, Serr says it might just be un-orchestrated high demand that caused the crash). A rather inelegant and belated response, if it were orchestrated. I don't have any theories. I'm just putting some of the puzzle pieces out there.

UPDATE: Per the occasionally accurate Debka Files, the guy killed was Iran's top Stuxnet expert. Hmmm. Well, it would seem to be quite a lot for a person to be a nuclear scientist on one hand and a computer programming expert on the other, but I guess it's possible. I think it's more likely that he headed the efforts to deal with Stuxnet.

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  1. (1)Iran is a small country, and its citizens have not been prominent in nuclear research. The community of qualified people to work on that stuff has to be limited.

    (2)Computer programming is an essential skill for scientists nowadays, and unfortunately for all concerned, every scientist nowadays appears to believe that he or she is a crackerjack at computer programming. The “models” that predict Gerbil Worming are all written by the investigators themselves, for instance.

    (3)Neither the DEBKA story nor anything else I’ve seen implies that the guy who got whacked was a programmer. He was a top bureaucrat in the group that was doing the investigations into STUXNET. The primary value of this incident to the world is that it notifies the mullahs and their stooges that they aren’t immune to random attacks — and unlike them, we get to use the people again.

    Regards,
    Ric

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