Wednesday, June 20, 2012

1764 Flaming Update

We are connected in so many ways these days by technology. Computers have so successfully insinuated themselves into every nook and cranny of our lives we don't even think about them anymore. No matter what country we are.
Like Iran.
Iran so far away.
It's actually closer then you think. If you’re a master cyberhacker and you use Windows. Because guess what? Iran is loaded with computers that use Windows too. And they use them in high places like, oh, nuclear enrichment plants.
Apparently Iran, our sworn enemy (I believe they were the ones doing the swearing) is not so enemy-fied to not buy computers pre-loaded with Windows operating systems. Which are, you know, supplied by Microsoft, a little company based in Redmond, Washington, in the good old USA.
That country Iran likes to view as an enemy.
So what does every proud owner of a Windows operating system have to endure periodically? Why, a "Windows update" of course. Which are, we have been assured, completely safe, and need to go through numerous authentication ID protocols to be allowed to root around in the bowels of your computer.
Unless you’re a super-hacker riding the update's data bits to Iran's electronic innards.
That's what happened. Iran's computers suddenly started experiencing a particularly virulent virus called Flame. Flame faked out the computers by essentially pretending it was part of an innocuous Window's update.
Microsoft has already sent out a patch… in another update.
If you were Iran, would you use it?
Or suspend your nuclear bomb research and get all your scientists working on developing your own operating system.
BTW Iran, while you're at it, remember which spawn of Satan sworn enemy country invented the internet from which you are getting those updates.
America, ya gotta love it.

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