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re: All flights in US grounded due to FAA computer outage
Posted on 1/11/23 at 6:48 am to Pettifogger
Posted on 1/11/23 at 6:48 am to Pettifogger
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Your life is in the hands of a 1996 packard bell
And our nuclear arsenal uses systems that were used in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8 inch floppy drives, drum hard drives, and the best IBM computers of the day.
The crazy thing is while spend billions in Ukraine some of this stuff is still running on the same hardware. At least some of this old stuff is not Chinese-Spy made crap technology of today.
This post was edited on 1/11/23 at 6:56 am
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Posted on 1/11/23 at 6:54 am to Tarps99
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And our nuclear arsenal uses systems that were used in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8 inch floppy drives, drum hard drives, and the best IBM computers of the day.
Probably safer because of it.
Can't hack what's too obsolete to connect to
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:07 am to Tarps99
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And our nuclear arsenal uses systems that were used in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8 inch floppy drives, drum hard drives, and the best IBM computers of the day.
To be fair that stuff is likely very secure
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:47 am to Tarps99
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And our nuclear arsenal uses systems that were used in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8 inch floppy drives, drum hard drives, and the best IBM computers of the day.
In a lot of ways, stuff like this is why they don’t change over those systems. They’re like old cars, so simple and so insulated that they’re almost impossible to crash or hack.
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