Flame Computer Bug May Have Been Released By Israel, Minister Says

[Purveyor]

May 29, 2012

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A computer virus attacking computers in Iran and the West Bank may have been created with Israeli involvement, a government minister hinted.

Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's vice prime minister, said in an interview Tuesday on Israel Radio that "Anyone who sees the Iranian threat as a significant threat would be likely to take various steps, including these, to harm it.

"Israel was blessed as being a country rich with high-tech," he said. "These tools that we take pride in open up all kinds of opportunities for us."

The discovery of the Flame virus, which is being called "the most sophisticated virus of all times," was announced Monday by the Kaspersky Lab in Russia. It was discovered in high concentrations in Iranian computers and also in the West Bank, Syria and Sudan.

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[kickysnana]

1. Computer virus warfare is stupid because it'll come right back at you. n/t

[aquart]

2. Yup. All you have to be is smart enough and one other thing.

You have to have a government willing to trust you with that much harmful knowledge. Iranians have brains but the other thing? Not so much.

Or they wouldn't have had to kill so many young, bright people in Evin prison.