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The good news is that US nuclear weapon silos are stuck with 1970s technology. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-other-old-tech-is-com

The good news is that US nuclear weapon silos are stuck with 1970s technology. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-other-old-tech-is-common-at-air-force-nuclear-missile-silos.html https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-o...

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.
- pengaru 6y ago
  > Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue. Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.
  - sushshshsh 6y ago
    Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes
    - nullsense 6y ago
      A Kubernetes cluster of nuclear weapons. Want mutually assured destruction? Simply deploy a helm chart!
      - donw 6y ago
        Finally, Terraform and CloudFormation can truly live up to their names!
        runawaybottle 6y ago
        Have you heard of Amazon’s new Chaos Engineering as a service?
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
- temp0826 6y ago
  Worked for Galactica
  - lumberingjack 6y ago
    No networks on the old mAn's ship!
sushshshsh 6y ago
Which is probably the reason they were not compromised.
aschla 6y ago
This is no longer the case, they’ve since upgraded: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
ricksharp 6y ago
Everyone calm down: It was just a kid trying to hack into a video game company. He accidentally started a war simulation. The US had recently turned over control of its entire nuclear arsenal to an AI because humans resisted launching weapons that would kill millions. Anyway, the kid accidentally started a war simulation and now the AI wants to nuke everyone. Don’t worry though, as soon as the AI plays itself in tic-tac-toe, it will realize that peace is the only way. If you aren’t old enough to understand this, you need to catch up on your 80s nerd movies. :)
- metiscus 6y ago
  How about a nice game of chess?
rurban 6y ago
You mean either launch password 1111 or 1234.

toomuchtodo 6y ago

Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.

pengaru 6y ago
> Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue. Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.
- sushshshsh 6y ago
  Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes
  - nullsense 6y ago
    A Kubernetes cluster of nuclear weapons. Want mutually assured destruction? Simply deploy a helm chart!
    - donw 6y ago
      Finally, Terraform and CloudFormation can truly live up to their names!
      - runawaybottle 6y ago
        Have you heard of Amazon’s new Chaos Engineering as a service?
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
temp0826 6y ago
Worked for Galactica
- lumberingjack 6y ago
  No networks on the old mAn's ship!

sushshshsh 6y ago

Which is probably the reason they were not compromised.

aschla 6y ago

This is no longer the case, they’ve since upgraded: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...

ricksharp 6y ago

Everyone calm down: It was just a kid trying to hack into a video game company. He accidentally started a war simulation. The US had recently turned over control of its entire nuclear arsenal to an AI because humans resisted launching weapons that would kill millions. Anyway, the kid accidentally started a war simulation and now the AI wants to nuke everyone. Don’t worry though, as soon as the AI plays itself in tic-tac-toe, it will realize that peace is the only way. If you aren’t old enough to understand this, you need to catch up on your 80s nerd movies. :)

metiscus 6y ago
How about a nice game of chess?

rurban 6y ago

You mean either launch password 1111 or 1234.