Mossad Changes Iran Nuclear Password To “••••••••••••••”

Psychological warfare as much as technical sabotage.

Tehran, November 5 – Officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s atomic weapons development program found themselves locked out of the system governing the initiative this week after Israel’s secret intelligence agency neutralized the computerized security altered all the access codes to a series of black dots.

The latest Israeli intelligence coup and Iranian embarrassment occurred over the weekend, say Mossad sources, as part of an ongoing attempt to slow, disable, or otherwise stymie Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran’s leadership has repeatedly called for Israel’s destruction.

A Mossad representative speaking on condition of anonymity under agency rules disclosed that months of intensive effort by the organization’s cyber-attack unit had yielded results when an agent procured a series of passwords to one of the regime’s most secure computer network. “They’ll be going mad, thinking they have the right passwords, when in fact the actual password is a bunch of black dots,” explained the agent. “We already have reports of scientists and other Iran nuclear program figures pulling their hair out, counting the dots, and swearing up and down. We even got a couple of video clips of it, and damn if that isn’t some of the most satisfying footage I’ve seen in my career.”

The episode comes on the heels of reports that the same networks have been hit by an even more dangerous and compromising worm than the Stuxnet virus, which neutralized thousands of centrifuges while signaling to their operators that nothing was amiss. The virus episode followed revelations that earlier in 2018 Israeli agents absconded with the entire archive of Iran’s nuclear weapons development program, presentation of which gave the lie to repeated insistence that the country no longer harbors nuclear ambitions.

Cybersecurity experts noted the cleverness of the scheme. “•••••••••••••• indeed,” remarked a former National Security Agency official. “Style. You don’t get trolling like that much anymore in international intrigue.”

In fact, noted another, the cleverness serves as strategic a purpose as the actual disruption of the program. “It’s psychological warfare as much as technical sabotage,” observed Saudi political commentator Jamal Khashoggi. “The message is ‘we can toy with your most secure systems – you sure you want to keep messing with us?’ The rate at which such operations have been taking place can only undermine Iranian confidence, which isn’t exactly at its peak when you take into account the economic and political instability plaguing the regime for a while already.”

“Me, I’m careful never to use •••••••••••••• as my password,” he added. “It’s like what some idiot would have on his luggage.”

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