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So why are they connecting the nuclear facilities to the Internet anyway? And why can't they just built an intranet only for the nuclear facilities. Sounds like a false reason with a different agenda behind it to me.


They aren't. If memory serves, the infection vector for Stuxnet was supposedly a flash drive.


So why do they think that isolation from the internet will make things safer for them?


IMO it's entirely because they're worried about another Arab Spring. If they control the only Twitter and the only Faceburqa, it becomes much more difficult for protesters to organize on that scale.


The actual article quotes the government official as saying the Internet incites “atheism” and other supposed moral evils. :)




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