What Can Iran Do Without Computers?

[hoosiernorm]

http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/detailse.php?cat=sece

Pretty steady stream of information/disinformation.

[hoosiernorm]

http://eliasbejjani.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... banon.html

Well-informed Saudi sources have confirmed to the "Beirut Observer" that the delay of Lebanon's PM return to Beirut came in response to advice by Saudi officials. The Saudis are extremely concerned in regards to information became available to them indicating that an imminent Hezbollah coup is in on the horizon. The Saudis are fearful that Hezbollah’s threats are not mere political rhetoric this time. The Iranian-armed militia has set all the needed logistic preparations for the coup and is only waiting for the zero hour.

According to the report, Hezbollah's planned coup will take a camouflaged cover of civilian protection this time. But the reality on the ground is that it will not be different from Hezbollah's bloody and cruel invasion of Western Sunni Beirut and Druze Mount Lebanon in May 2008. The coup will be initiated by putting government officials under house arrest. This will include Lebanon's PM, Saad Al Hariri, General prosecutor Said Mirza, Internal Security Forces General Director General Ashraf Rifi as well as many other officials and politicians. Sources said that Information Branch President Colonel Wesam Hassan will be spared from house arrest in the early hours of the coup.

[Terry]

That’s not entirely true; computers running Apple OS are not subject to attack. In fact Apple prides itself on they fact that malware and viruses do not attack it’s systems unlike Windows based ones. UNIX based systems devoted to critical systems are rarely linked to the internet and are accessed using secure methods so it is difficult to introduce viruses into them.

I am not sure what the Iranians are doing here, are they managing a systems crucial to national security? Needless to say if they are, they are wide open to attack. The Chinese have very sophisticated cyber ware unit and have been responsible for several attacks on the US and Western countries in the past. There was a case a few years back when a cyber attack on the German Chancellor’s office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was traced back to China. In this incident the Chinese stole a lot of data.

[Richard Greene]

I still love low-tech methods of sabtoge when it comes to Iranian weapons sites.

Yes indeed, what's good for the Iranian goose (using low-tech rockets against Israel) is good for the Kurdish gander (seeding well-placed dumb-bombs in an Iranian missile base).

Somewhere I read that the Israelis have intelligence and military ties with the Kurds, tho they used to vehemently deny such pre-flotilla. Maybe it is time to ramp up the cause of a free and sovereign Kurdistan: The West can kill so many Islamist birds with that stone.