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Some contractor creates an internal webhook for testing the silo door that later gets accidentally hooked up to the full launch sequence and - during a billion
by throwup238 3y ago
Some contractor creates an internal webhook for testing the silo door that later gets accidentally hooked up to the full launch sequence and - during a billion dollar DoD mainframe upgrade project (to finally get away from COBOL) - gets exposed to the internet. MAD doctrine does the rest.
That is how the Anthropocene ends and the age of the machines begins. So say we all.
- Art9681 3y agoThis is the kind of nonsense that happens at startups, not government agencies with the capability to destroy cities.
- NateEag 3y agoIt sounds like you may not have read the "broken arrow" incidents Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_acc... There are a number of hair-raising stories tucked away in there. Paired with knowledge of things like Stuxnet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet), the broken arrow list fills with worry for what might happen with nuclear weapons systems in our modern, hyper-connected world.
- pksebben 3y agoplease see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls