Die Hard 4.0 comes true...

[Ch3tan]

BBC News - Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets'

 

[Scouse]

Stuxnet's complexity suggests it could only have been written by a "nation state", some researchers have claimed...

..."It is rare to see an attack using one zero-day exploit," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, told BBC News. "Stuxnet used not one, not two, but four."

That's a pretty big deal.

Maybe Steven Hawking is right: Animals that evolve far enough to understand how to split the atom blow themselves up before they ever leave their planet

Attacks that may target nuclear power stations are yet another reason to go totally renewable. If the risk is real it's not worth taking.

 

[Tom]

Nuclear power stations can be attacked in whatever way you like, all that will happen is that they'll shut down. No mushroom clouds, no meltdowns, nothing. Modern stations are just about foolproof.

 

[Scouse]

Nuclear power stations can be attacked in whatever way you like, all that will happen is that they'll shut down. No mushroom clouds, no meltdowns, nothing. Modern stations are just about foolproof.

I just don't accept that Tom. I didn't know you had a degree in reactor design. Just saying it doesn't make it true.

I'd prefer to err on the side of caution.

 

[mr.Blacky]

I still rather live next to a nuclear plant then next to a coal plant.

Strange article tho, it targets Siemens stuff but Siemens left the country 30 years ago?

 

[Scouse]

Iran in using outdated western technology installed by the russians non-shocker?

 

[Tom]

I just don't accept that Tom. I didn't know you had a degree in reactor design. Just saying it doesn't make it true.

I'd prefer to err on the side of caution.

Presumably then you hold a degree in the dangers of nuclear power stations.

Oh.

 

[mr.Blacky]

Scouse.. yeah shocker cause they could have ripped some russian technology maybe? after all they havent stopped building reactors unlike siemens..

 

[ECA]

Israel trying to infiltrate Iran in new shock news sensation ^^

 

[Scouse]

Of course not Tom.

But I never made the claim that nuclear power stations could be attacked in "any way" yet remain "foolproof".

All I said is I'd rather err on the side of caution.

Nuclear ownership has been a litany of radiation leaks and accidents in this country - never mind others. Chernoble did happen, awkward as that fact is, as have other nuclear disasters.

If people are actively attacking nuclear power stations then perhaps they're not as safe as we're led to believe?

 

[Shagrat]

a nuclear power station should not be in a situation where it can be compromised by a windows virus on a usb stick.....

 

[Scouse]

I agree.

And what happened to your old avatar? I liked it!

 

[Raven]

I would like to know who the new one is.

 

[Shagrat]

Quincy's having a rest. this week I am "girl pulling a silly face" avatar man

 

[Shagrat]

she may have frequented the boobs/butt threads.

well the face looks familiar, think if id met her in person she'd have made more of an impression

im sure edmund can probably supply pictures of her partially addressed as a policewoman/taxidermist/nurse/hippo trainer....

 

[Scouse]

Sir Jack Klugman, replaced by one of the birds who'd frequent his boat. What's the world coming to?