[governance] Iran's ministries to go offline: phase one of move to intranet society

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<CAJwbTiCh89-5kWPYf2HHGhMT8aBudi1+G4grVWU7M5ekOyTF4g at mail.gmail.com>, at 
07:35:40 on Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro 
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes

>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.

The memory card in any digital camera (or phone) is in effect a USB 
stick. My camera/phone even came with a USB stick adapter to plug the 
[micro-SD] memory card into.
-- 
Roland Perry

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