Thread by @GREENESJ333

We have known for a very long time that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons and Israel allegedly had created bugs that pushed back their projects. Stuxnet was a famous computer worm that we learned about in 2010.
1)

It exploited previously-unknown Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to infect target systems and spread to other systems. Stuxnet was mainly targeted at the centrifuges of Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities,
2)

with the intention of covertly derailing Iran’s then-emerging nuclear program.

The worm was discovered in 2010 after it was used to attack a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran.
3)

It was the first publicly known example of a virus being used to attack industrial machinery.

Researchers at Symantec uncovered a version of the Stuxnet computer virus that was used to attack Iran's nuclear program in November 2007,
4)

with evidence indicating it was under development as early as 2005, when Iran was still setting up its uranium enrichment facility.
The Stuxnet virus is most famous for being used on computers in Iran, specifically computers that helped with uranium enrichment in that country
5)

Experts believe that the virus was delivered to the Iranian Natanz nuclear plant through a worker using a USB drive.
The worm infected computers and machines at Natanz and then traveled to other sites.
6)

The Stuxnet virus eventually installed itself on computers that controlled the plant’s centrifuges. It then sped up the centrifuges and caused them to spin irregularly.
7)

The altered spinning of the centrifuges was minimal so that the workers at the plant were not alarmed by the changes and the virus caused the computers to register all was operating normally.
8)

The Stuxnet worm attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities is currently agreed upon as a cyber weapon to attack the development of Iran's nuclear development program.
9)

However, the designers of the worm are still unknown. Many experts suggest that the Stuxnet worm attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities was a joint operation between the United States and Israel.
10)

So, knowing about these efforts, I knew that Netanyahu was not lying when he spoke before Congress each time. He knew the existential threat was real and for all this time, he and others planned how to deal with Iran knowing one day, we would be here.
11)

We also know that AI sped everything up for the Iranian scientists. Israel had to act preemptively or Iran, the state sponsor of terror in the region & world would have nuclear weapons. Iran already purchased long range missiles from N Korea. Even the US is not safe.
12)

@threadreaderapp unroll