Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware 191
An anonymous reader writes, quoting the article: "At the start of this month, news broke that Iran and North Korea have strengthened their ties, specifically by signing a number of cooperation agreements on science and technology. The two states signed the pact on Saturday, declaring that it represented a united front against Western powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, told Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's ceremonial head of state, the two countries have common enemies and aligned goals. On Monday, security firm F-Secure weighed in on the discussion. The company believes Iran and North Korea may be interested in collaborating against government-sponsored malware attacks such as Duqu, Flame, and Stuxnet."
Breaking Nazi crypto (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Interesting)
Unless there's an advantage I don't see with Iran and North Korea strengthening ties.
It's called the "Slytherin Plan" - gather all your troublemakers and ne'er-do-wells and put them in one spot, so you always know where the next attack is coming from (pro-tip: it's coming from the hive of scum and villainy you just made by doing so).
Re:Oh, the Irony (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, if you're doing anything that involves a satellite, there's some Nazi tech. Your country is holding back the dogs of war with nukes that contain Nazi tech. If you ever did anything that involved hypothermia, you have Dr. Mengele to thank, of course he got that very useful information by freezing hundred of Jews to death, which while useful makes it one of the hardest won pieces of medical information ever collected and forever Mengele a scumbag of monumental proportions.
In fact the Nazis were brilliant engineers and there are literally thousands of improvements in motors, cars, trains, heavy machinery, factories and engineering and applied sciences that are a permanent part of everything we do. That doesn't mean they weren't barbaric. It does mean that they produced some amazing technology in the headlong race to self destruction. Hmmmm, sound at all familiar?
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Interesting)
the USA didn't make iran and north korea. this would disavow the existence of millions of human beings who of their own volition have made it their life's work to militarize and issue bellicose language for decades
oh i know "in ancient history cold war, the USA did {XYZ} to country {ABC}. therefore, the USA is forevermore 100% responsible for what country {ABC} does." with such stunning intellectual analysis, nevermind completely condescension and patronization of iranians and north koreans as nothing but cardboard cutouts of american actions, how can one argue?
also, i like how it disavows the USA of anything that happens in afghanistan. since because the USSR invaded it in the 1980s, by some idiot's logic, that means 100% of everything in afghanistan is Russia's fault forever. Oh wait, I'm sorry! We sold Osama bin Laden a stinger missile in the 1980s, so therefore, everything the man does after that is 100% our fault. sorry, i have to get with the mindless blanket blame game program and stop thinking of these people as having free will and the ability to create their own agenda, and remember that they are all just reflections of past american actions, of course