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>Cyber weapons mean that during a crisis, nuclear militaries have to consider whether their chain of command has been compromised. Good luck compromising nucle
by rl3 9y ago
>Cyber weapons mean that during a crisis, nuclear militaries have to consider whether their chain of command has been compromised.
Good luck compromising nuclear arms C&C. There's a reason a lot of it runs on systems from the 70s.
- qb45 9y agoMaybe in the US and Russia. I wonder if it could be pirated Windows XP in North Korea, OTOH ;)
- ben_w 9y agoWell, the UK has what is pejoratively called "Windows for Warships: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMCS-NG_as_first_deployment_of_.22Windows_for_Warships.22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System#SMC...
- qb45 9y agoReminds me of this classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29#Smart_ship_testbed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29#Smart... On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing an attempted division by zero in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager, resulting in a buffer overflow which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.