| Cacique Caribe | 16 Apr 2018 2:05 p.m. PST |
link Are UK's military systems also that integrated? Dan
PS. Reminds me a little of this 2013 film:
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 16 Apr 2018 2:31 p.m. PST |
Same reason why Kaspersky anti-virus software is too risky? |
| Cerdic | 16 Apr 2018 3:05 p.m. PST |
The article doesn't mention military systems. It is talking about kit like domestic routers in people's homes that have been supplied by their telecoms company. |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Apr 2018 3:06 p.m. PST |
Cerdic: "The article doesn't mention military systems." That's why I'm asking. Some things should not be outsourced. Power grids, banking networks, military, etc. Dan |
| Lion in the Stars | 16 Apr 2018 6:12 p.m. PST |
You know, that's the funny thing about the internet. It's fully capable of still sending messages around even with large parts of it not working (as long as there is ONE functional connection route to any point, it will work). Almost like it was designed to still work when someone is busy nuking the country… |
| Striker | 16 Apr 2018 6:53 p.m. PST |
Didn't Atlanta just come out of a ransomware attack? It sounds like the normal "save money no matter what is at risk" idea. Maybe not related: the family that found out someone got into their wifi baby monitor and was talking to their kid and moving the camera around. Like Jurassic Park, nobody's asking if we should. |
| Winston Smith | 16 Apr 2018 9:21 p.m. PST |
That is why I will never buy a coffe pot made before 1980. Them Commie bastards wants to pollute our precious bodily fluids! |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Apr 2018 9:57 p.m. PST |
Before 1980? Are you kidding me? It's all the newer stuff you gotta really watch out for! :) Dan |
| Kropotkin303 | 17 Apr 2018 1:50 p.m. PST |
Lion, as I understand it that was the whole reason to invent the internet. Dispersed networks that would still work when the rest of the country was obliterated. Can't still believe that it was released gratis to the whole world. Of course some countries wish it had not been. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET |
| Cacique Caribe | 17 Apr 2018 2:02 p.m. PST |
Kropotkin303 Like my uncle said to me a few weeks before he passed, it was the West's final big attempt to create and/or exploit chinks in the armor of the remaining totalitarian regimes. But perhaps we might experience a boomerang effect that puts our networks at risk. Dan |
| Lion in the Stars | 19 Apr 2018 2:33 p.m. PST |
@Kropotkin303: This forum needs a sarcasm font, since I thought most everyone here knew the history of ARPANet. |
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