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2010-12-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Stuxnet may have destroyed 1,000 centrifuges at Natanz

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-12-24 05:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Impressive until you read on & discover that they're putting in 10,000. A 10% disablement rate isn't going to do much more than slow down the process, is it?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-12-24 07:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-12-24 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Mitch,

IIRC, every one of those centrifuges has to work perfectly every time, otherwise you can't be sure of what you're getting.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-12-24 08:12|| 2010-12-24 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3
Slowing down the process is not ideal, but it's still desirable

Posted by Parabellum 2010-12-24 08:21|| 2010-12-24 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Whoever designed and implemented this program deserves the Intelligence Star

Posted by Spanky Wheack7175 2010-12-24 09:02|| 2010-12-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 also if you take out 10% of them in one virus attack then every attack after that takes out another 10% or even 5 % then it's worth it too keep on doing it. It cost them alot of money time and effort.

Posted by chris 2010-12-24 11:53|| 2010-12-24 11:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Think of it as buying time until we get a real CINC.

Posted by Hupusock Bluetooth3070 2010-12-24 13:14|| 2010-12-24 13:14|| Front Page Top

#7 1k damaged
probably another few thou in process of being damaged

in the meantime, the mullahs are diverting a huge amount of the country's electricity to this project

Posted by Lord Garth 2010-12-24 13:24|| 2010-12-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Numbers do not seem to be a fixed philosophical concept in that part of the world (except for Israel, of course). Who knows what the real number is. I don't see why the processing problem would not have been applied to every centrifuge in the place, myself.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-24 13:36|| 2010-12-24 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, I am thinking the tech specialists in Iran still don't know what they don't know, and thus neither do any of us.
I would just like to be a fly on the wall when each of the centrifuges emits a blue puff of "Iranian technology" smoke, sort of like Mario Andretti's race car on the back streach of the Indy 500... To that I say Allah be praised.

Posted by Capsu78 2010-12-24 14:12|| 2010-12-24 14:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Think of it as buying time until we get a real CINC.

Yah, Ima thinking next time we need to get a Haas.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-24 16:57|| 2010-12-24 16:57|| Front Page Top

#11 "next time we need to get a Haas"

A Dutch rabbit, Thing?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-24 21:22|| 2010-12-24 21:22|| Front Page Top

#12 No, A uniform tailor

Those were the days.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-12-24 21:37|| 2010-12-24 21:37|| Front Page Top

#13 A Haas CNC machine.

That's what y'all are talking about, right?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-24 22:40|| 2010-12-24 22:40|| Front Page Top

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