Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html

WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly
ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems
that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly
expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to
participants in the program.
Hasan Sarbakhshian/Associated Press

Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush
administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of
the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because
of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant
and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security
experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the
United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.

At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of
the worm’s “escape,” Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E.
Panetta, considered whether America’s most ambitious attempt to slow
the progress of Iran’s nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised.
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