(07-10-2020, 05:45 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-10-2020, 03:27 AM)p_rushing Wrote: There were a few stories about hacking and a plant blowing up a week or 2 ago. It sounded like Israel may have done it, but it didn't get a lot of coverage. If it was fake, I would expect Iran to openly blame Israel. They are trying to say it was sabotage from within. The fact that they haven't blamed them, points to Israel having used some type of cyber attack to cause it to blow up.

I'm not attacking your post or anything; I just have an honest question: how can a cyber attack cause something to blow up?  I'm not saying it can't; I'm just having a hard time coming up with a scenario where a cyber attack can cause an explosion.

The stuxnet virus caused Iranian machinery to spin much faster than its rated speed, breaking it.
It's easy to imagine a similar virus caused a temperature or pressure control system to allow conditions that would lead to an explosion.
The only reason we know about stuxnet is that the virus was found on computers worldwide, even though it would only activate on a specific model, German made control system.  This time, whoever wanted to screw with the Iranians might have had more help on the inside and no need to have a computer virus propagate worldwide. We may never find out.

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