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re: US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
Posted on 10/18/19 at 10:55 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 10/18/19 at 10:55 am to Street Hawk
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Posted on 10/18/19 at 10:56 am to TigerstuckinMS
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Archaic technology that is airgapped and is buried 100 feet into rock is fricking SECURE. You've got to get physical access to the equipment to do anything with it and not too many people go around the silos without being noticed.
This guy was calling me a “fricking moron” for saying that
Posted on 10/18/19 at 10:58 am to The Pirate King
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This guy was calling me a “fricking moron” for saying that
Well, everyone around here is a fricking moron. This time, though, not for that.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:03 am to The Pirate King
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They’re probably not any harder to hack now, but the storage capacity is so low and they’re having to train people coming in how to use a floppy
Just punch a hole in the other side and flip it over.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:09 am to Thracken13
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This post was edited on 10/18/19 at 11:32 am
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:11 am to Speedy G
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Just punch a hole in the other side and flip it over.
I feel bad that I recall doing that.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:13 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:15 am to Street Hawk
I wish i had an 8 inch floppie
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:19 am to Street Hawk
Yep, much better that we put our military security secrets out on the web. Nobody will hack it. The military says its completely secure. Nothing to worry about.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:31 am to Street Hawk
Many nuclear power plant reactor protection control systems are on these same kind of floppy disks. It's a monumental task to change to modern technology because of concerns with both cyber security and ensuring reliability of a new system.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:32 am to Street Hawk
Damn. No more "I'd download her onto my floppy" jokes.
It's the end of an era.
It's the end of an era.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:34 am to Street Hawk
Yes what we need to do is make our nuclear weapons systems more hackable
Posted on 10/18/19 at 11:35 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 10/18/19 at 12:01 pm to Street Hawk
Let's avoid anything that says "Skynet."
Posted on 10/18/19 at 12:04 pm to Street Hawk
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US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
Putting the IBM in ICBM.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 12:30 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:and getting near the boom room would result in death for the trespassers.
You've got to get physical access to the equipment to do anything with it and not too many people go around the silos without being noticed. Even if you do get close to it
Posted on 10/18/19 at 12:31 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/18/19 at 1:29 pm to Thracken13
Technology was old but how accurate do you need to be with a nuke?
shite, I missed the target by two blocks... Entire city still destroyed..
shite, I missed the target by two blocks... Entire city still destroyed..
Posted on 10/18/19 at 1:32 pm to Salviati
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Yeah, that's it.
That's the reason.
Took 30 years, but now they are hard to hack.
Damn, you're a fricking moron.
You should apologize because that is exactly why they kept them. He was 100% right.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 2:21 pm to bad93ex
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You don't need to be connected to the net in order to be compromised. Take a look at the Stuxnet Attack.
This is true. An air gap can be defeated by infecting someone who connects to the airgapped network. That's how stuxnet first got into Natanz.
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