Did It Really Take Over A Year For Security Companies To Realize That Iranian Prez's Blog Installs Trojans?
from the seems-a-bit-slow dept
Someone who apparently prefers to remain anonymous submitted to us the news that Israeli security companies are warning people to stay away from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog, as it installs some spyware. What struck me as odd about that story was that this is not news at all. In fact, it was widely reported in the weeks following the launch of Ahmadinejad's blog. The blog watches to see if your IP address is from Israel and then tries to install the spyware (if you're using Windows). So, why is it suddenly being reported in Israel that this is happening, when it was well known about a year and a half ago? Isn't that a little late to try to get the warning out?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: iran, israel, mahmoud ahmadinejad, security, trojans
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If it's old news then who cares?
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However, the people who say it's their job to care, anti-virus security companies, ought to care. Otherwise, it's just a show (but we knew that already).
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slow news day
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The News
With the rate people seem to forget about tech news like this, it is probably good to bring it to people's attention again.
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Re: The News
Whoa! You are so meta, and you don't even know it!
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Just for me
Now I know not to go to the irnaian president's blog. I learned two things. I also learned he had a blog.
So someday I could have just been stumbling along and landed on his blog and then where would I be?
This post has saved my life. Really!
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Re: Just for me
what would Iran do with information about Israeli citizens shopping preferences and their most played mp3s?
I mean, its not that easy to infect a Mossad agent's computer, is it? Ahmadinejad is too funny.
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Just becuase...
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Ya See,
In the meantime of course I'd be very sure to prevent that trojan from getting on any vital computers and I'd go out of my way to prevent the Iranians from thinking we might be on to them - even silencing the media and security companies on the issue. Once we'd achieved our goal, or felt Iran no longer trusted the information we were feeding them, I'd let the press and security companies sound the alarm to protect the general populace.
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Didn't know!
Cheers.
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Some one should install
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Re: Some one should install
But there are a few that generate some optimism in my book, Gravel, Kucinich, and Obama provide us with some hope for the world's future! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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Re: Re: Some one should install
Less than 5% of the worlds population lives in the USA.
The rest of us really probably couldnt care less who Americans elect as their next head of state, if we cared last time around we'd have told you.
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so maybe the rest of us should care and take an interest, especially since you mention "last time around", I think nobody can deny what a great "leader" Jr. has been
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Follow the money
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The only thing this blog does is too look at the IP and show a a relevant language. With all Anti-spyware and Anti-viruses and secure browsers, even a kid would be able to discover if a site is trying to mess with your system, no need of Israeli security analyzers!!
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