Documentary Balmes Israel for Stuxnet Malware Failure

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Documentary Balmes Israel for Stuxnet Malware Failure

By CircleID Reporter
July 05, 2016, 3:13 am PDT Views: 5,670 Add Comment

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney’s “Zero Days”—coming out on Friday—investigates the story of the classified Stuxnet attack on Iran by the US and Israel. “New film blames Israel for failure of Iran malware,” Joe Uchill reporting in The Hill: “Up to now, reports have indicated that the United States began working on Stuxnet due to growing fears about Iran’s budding nuclear weapons program. ... In Gibney’s version of events, the U.S. entered a partnership with Israel to use cyber weaponry largely to keep Israel from starting a war the United States would be called on to finish.”

— Gibney on dealing with the challenging subject matter / Examinber.com:” Everybody knew about Stuxnet. Everybody agreed it was Israel and the United States who conducted the operation. I couldn’t even get officials to say that Stuxnet even existed. So there was a sort of ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ quality that I found particularly frustrating in this context.”

— Gibney: “When it comes to cyber-weapons, the U.S. may be the most vulnerable nation on earth because we are the most inter-connected.”

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