Clearly this is based on paranoia the moves towards an insular society and walling off the rest of the world from the Internet and its marvellous contraptions, opportunities, are based on fear. They are based on a fear that their security would be threatened. If there is anything to be learnt from Stuxnet, it is this, despite having an intranet, the virus was transmitted through a USB key and the manner in which USB keys are evolving from toys, pens, pendants, what is to stop anyone from penetrating a nation's defence.<div>
<br></div><div>The impact of the Internet on how we live our lives never ceases to amaze me. I suppose when they created their elite army to hunt down dissidents within Iran is also a powerful factor, that they would not want the Arab Spring dynamics to happen in Iran. When a country fears its own people and fears those outside its walls, it's a sad day for humanity.<br>
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