By Lawrence Conway PUBLISHED: 11:24 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 03:25 EST, 3 June 2012 Barak Obama secretly stepped up a viral war on Iran's nuclear programme, but the technology escaped leaving the U.S. government exposed Barack Obama secretly stepped up a viral war on Iran’s nuclear programme by creating a virus that has now escaped into the rest of the internet. Obama accelerated the attacks which began under the previous Bush administration and were code-named Olympic Games. One of the computer viruses, Stuxnet, accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 after getting out of Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant.
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Details of U.S. presidents backing for high tech attacks on Iran confirmed by security team source
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The 2010 Stuxnet virus was developed with the Israeli government to set back Iranian nuclear research
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The attacks appear to be continuing with Iran highlighting new computer viruses
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The error sent the damaging programme, reportedly developed by the @placeholder and Israeli governments, around the world on the internet.
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The worm was designed to break the @placeholder nuclear centrifuge equipment by issuing commands to the hardware responsible for their spin rate.
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A preliminary bit of code was used to map out all the network connections within the plant and report them back to the @placeholder
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'We think there was a modification done by the @placeholder,' one of the briefers told the president, 'and we don’t know if we were part of that activity.'
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The government also feared Stuxnet's escape would damage @placeholder credibility when it complained about such attacks launched by other nations.
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@placeholder's vice premier on Tuesday did little to deflect suspicion about the country's possible involvement.