Even Tim Cook can't believe this shit.

Tim Cook and other Apple representatives are on Capital Hill today, answering questions about why the company doesn't pay any more taxes here in the U.S. of A. Senator Carl Levin is currently waving around his iPhone and grilling the lot of them about their Irish subsidiaries.

However, crotchety old John McCain wanted some answers on another matter while he had Mr. Cook's attention: "Why the hell" does he have to keep updating the apps on his iPhone?

Bill Gates might want to steer clear of D.C., in case Senator McCain decides he needs an explanation for why Microsoft Office doesn't include the funny little talking paperclip any more.

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This new discovery is likely to fuel theories from security experts that Stuxnet was part of an American-led cyber program "that is still active in the Middle East and perhaps other parts of the world," says Reuters. Not the best way to win those hearts and minds!

Kaspersky Labs is the same firm that discovered Flame last month. CEO Eugene Kaspersky said portions of Flame's software code matched code from a 2009 version of Stuxnet. Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 after it hacked an Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, damaging centrifuges used to enrich uranium.  At a Reuters summit in London today, Mr. Kaspersky said,  "There were two different teams working in collaboration," on Stuxnet and Flame.

Authorities in Washington are busy distracting the public with investigations into the source of the leaks. But meanwhile, Israel is trying to get its name attached to the cyber attacks. This weekend, an article in Haaretz quoted anonymous Israeli agents insisting it was Mossad and not the U.S. that developed Stuxnet.

As Haaretz's Yossi Melman wrote:

"The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran’s nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of. Even friendly nations are hesitant to share their technological and intelligence resources against a common enemy."

If the Mossad agents are willing to talk, we're sure John McCain would like a word.