Why Was Stuxnet Attack Called Operation Olympic Games?
The Pentagon chose Olympic Games as the code name for the Stuxnet operation against Iran. But that ruins the whole point, writes Andrew Roberts, who traces the history of code names back to World War II when the British had a lot of silly ones.
The code name that the Pentagon chose for its Stuxnet cyberoperation to hinder the Iranian uranium enrichment program—Olympic Games—has raised eyebrows in intelligence circles. To give the massive, international, and imminent operation a name that implies something that is massive, international, and imminent is precisely the opposite of what code...
