Hacktivists Breach Email System of Company Operating Iran's Nuclear Plant

Iran has one nuclear power plant. The email system of the company operating it was just breached, according to Iran's civil nuclear arm. The Associated Press reports: An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack on Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, demanding Tehran release political prisoners arrested in the recent nationwide protests. The group said it leaked 50 gigabytes of internal emails, contracts and construction plans related to Iran's Russian-backed nuclear power plant in Bushehr and shared the files on its Telegram channel. It was unclear whether the breached system contained classified material.

The hack comes as Iran continues to face nationwide unrest...

Stupidity.

[Forty Two Tenfold]

Nothing helps terrorists more than revealing vulnerabilities and secrets of a place that should be secure.

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[AmiMoJo]

We will probably discover that there are a lot of problems at that plant. Safety issues, handling issues, leaks that were quietly covered up. We only tend to find out about some guy pouring high level nuclear waste into a drain when it's detected externally, unless we get a leak like this.

Shows how much you know

[atomicalgebra]

pouring high level nuclear waste into a drain

Hey dumbfuck. Used fuel(aka high level nuclear waste) is a solid metal. It can't be poured since it isn't a liquid.

Do humanity a favor and shut the fuck up

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[arglebargle_xiv]

I'm sure you're right, and the thousands of liquid tanks and drums of nuclear waste stored all over the world are just a figment of our imagination.

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[atomicalgebra]

Yes you are correct. They are a figment of your imagination. Actually it is the result of fossil fuel backed antinuclear propaganda.

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[drinkypoo]

The pools are nuclear fuel sitting in water to keep them cool and stop neutrons. The fuel is not dissolved in water. They sit in the pool for a limited time [wikipedia.org] before being transferred to a dry cask which will eventually suffer from embrittlement, rust, and leak. So the whole thing is still shit, but it's not precisely the kind of shit you think it is.

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[atomicalgebra]

Solid metal cannot leak dumbfuck. Used fuel has harmed a total of zero people ever. Fossil fuels and biofuels kill 8.7 million people annually. Your priorities are fucked scumbag.

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[drinkypoo]

Solid metal cannot leak dumbfuck.

Quiet, son, the adults are talking. [wordpress.com]

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[atomicalgebra]

I'm not going to click on some bullshit wordpress website. Maybe cite something real. Oh wait you can't. Dumbfuck

And don't forget. Antinuclear scumbags like you deserve death. I hope you kill yourself.

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[GoTeam]

You're starting to sound like an anti-nuclear troll doing a bit. Is that intentional? I'm pro-nuclear for the right applications, but your level of spit and venom is just odd. No sane person talks like that.

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[atomicalgebra]

Yeah 8.7 million people die from fossil fuel and biofuels annually. That is a holocaust a year. Climate change is real. Poverty is real. So yeah I'm pissed. Especially since those scumbags keep citing the same lies over and over again in order to keep killing.

Facts cannot change minds. In fact research has revealed that facts actually result in people holding on to their beliefs. For example providing evidence of the big bang or evolution to a creationist results in the creationist believing harder.

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[drinkypoo]

Nothing helps terrorists more than revealing vulnerabilities and secrets of a place that should be secure.

That's what we want when it comes to an Iranian nuclear plant

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[geekmux]

Get ready! Here it comes. A torrent of anti nuclear bullshit from our resident hippies.

By "hippies", I'm assuming you're referring to Gen-internet who defines "off the grid" living as mooching WiFi from somewhere other than a Starbucks? Those aren't exactly the minimalist tree-huggers from yore...

Iran protesters

[backslashdot]

Iran's protesters have zero in terms of strategy. They have no strategic ideas in how to fight a tyranny. They really don't seem to even know who they are dealing with. They don't know how to even proper scare the regime. Compare that to the protests in Sri Lanka earlier this year .. they scared the shit out of the leadership and even their president fled the country.

The protesters can, theoretically, win. IF they had the right strategy -- which they don't have. The protesters are treating Basij members and

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[Anubis IV]

ISIS leaders were coward too, they chose to hide all the time.

The group you’re talking about is to be reviled, denounced, and literally fought at every turn, but hiding from your enemy is not a cowardly move: it’s a sound strategic choice that demonstrably provides better outcomes because it plays to your strengths while diminishing those of your stronger opponent who can’t bring their strength to bear. Calling them “cowards” because they don’t come out in the open so that we can land a haymaker in their faces is missing the point o

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[backslashdot]

If you hide, it means you know you are weaker and afraid of facing the enemy.

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[Anubis IV]

If you hide, it means you know you are weaker and afraid of facing the enemy.

The former, yes, but not necessarily the latter. Not showing your face may be indicative of fear, but it can just as easily be indicative of a sound strategist demonstrating the strength to not be baited via pride and bravado into a losing encounter.

Just wondering

[oldgraybeard]

is this a bad thing or a good thing?

Link failure

[LandGator]

Looks like wrong URL used in weblink. Suggest using https://time.com/6224137/iran-... [time.com]

"Hactivists", yeah right

[Rujiel]

It's almost certainly a state actor, probably Israel. Was "Thunderstruck" by ACDC playing on their computers?