Some recent high profile hackings.

Posted By: BenZila | Oct 5th, 2005 @ 6:05 AM
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#Oct 6th, 2005 @ 4:26 PM
Manip
Manip

Yeah, I too was a bad boy when I was younger .... School, College were both rooted but I've turned over a new leaf at University and have only gained non-root access on a web-server that isn't a secure system anyway.

My mantra: "I will not get kicked out, I will not get kicked out .... "

But if I *happen* to run across a security problem in University then I feel I must explore how deep the problem goes for the good of the University. Wink

 

#Oct 6th, 2005 @ 5:14 PM
Programous
Programous
Manip wrote:
They might have a point about Iran though. I mean how hypocritical is it for the UK and USA to have nuclear reactors, when in fact we could afford not to ... and to stop, with threats, a country like Iran that NEEDS that type of cheap power from having it?


That argument does not hold water. Iran sits on the world’s second largest supply of oil and natural gas; if I remember correctly, it will cost them 2 to 3 times more to use nuclear fuel as opposed to fossil.  Second, Iran is not poor by any means; the mullahs just hold all of the money, similar to the way Iraq used to be. If you are more interested in the topic there’s a good book called “Atomic Iran” that has the most facts of any sources that I’ve scene.
#Oct 6th, 2005 @ 5:28 PM
Programous
Programous
Manip wrote:
W3bbo wrote:
Manip wrote:
Black Ratchet wrote: Because Iran has been so honest and forthcoming before. If they say their reactor is being used for peaceful purposes, we should believe them, right?


All a nuclear reactor does is generate electricity. I think what you meant to say was you couldn't be sure they would use the enriched uranium *in* their reactor instead of a nuclear weapon.


Not really.

Virtually all reactors can be used to produce weapons-grade materials.

Indeed, the UK's first nuclear power station (IIRC, it was also the world's) was primarily used to produce enriched uranium (or was it plutonium?), the power generated was just a by-product.


I thought Uranium was enriched using isotope separation, which uses standard diffusion, centrifugal force, mass spectrometry (deflection) or other chemical reactions, how does a rector come into play?



In most cases, nuclear reactors do not produce any nuclear fuel. What he may be referring to is ‘fast reactors’ that can, in some cases, convert U-238 (cannot be used in a reactor or weapon) to Pu-239. But in Iran’s case that is less of a problem as they would be more likely to use a U-235 base ‘gun’ reactor. A plutonium weapon requires more sophistication and expertise. 
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