Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney's "Zero Days" — coming out on Friday — investigates the story of the classified Stuxnet attack on Iran by the US and Israel. "New film blames Israel for failure of Iran malware," Joe Uchill reporting in The Hill: "Up to now, reports have indicated that the United States began working on Stuxnet due to growing fears about Iran’s budding nuclear weapons program. ... In Gibney’s version of events, the U.S. entered a partnership with Israel to use cyber weaponry largely to keep Israel from starting a war the United States would be called on to finish."
— Gibney on dealing with the challenging subject matter / Examinber.com:” Everybody knew about Stuxnet. Everybody agreed it was Israel and the United States who conducted the operation. I couldn’t even get officials to say that Stuxnet even existed. So there was a sort of 'Emperor’s New Clothes' quality that I found particularly frustrating in this context."
— Gibney: "When it comes to cyber-weapons, the U.S. may be the most vulnerable nation on earth because we are the most inter-connected."
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