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- bsingin64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Skynet became self aware at 12:17 PM January 31st, 2012....
- dhakbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You speak as if our enemies aren't already aware of such obvious security flaws..
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Why do we need a missile defense network if the nukes are going to come across the wide-open Mexican border or the foreign-owned ports anyway?
Oh that's right, the contractors that are being paid billions in US tax revenue to develop this modern Maginot Line are the ones who put Bush in office! - Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6America has ALWAYS had a missle defence security flaw. Yes, the oceans, the super carriers, the submarines, our allies the russians and british, are great far anti-intercontinental bastic systems, but one problem. We have nothing to stop a missle launched within the US. Any of you 24 fans know what I mean. All we have is the National Guard and Air force to TRY and stop it if terrorists were to lauch something (those canadians don't seem like tommuch of a threat, lol). We need to be like Israel, we need Patriot like anti-missle systems in every city.
Yes, they systems may have problems, but if those systems only protect you form certian cirumstances... your screwed. - starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6this is nothing new. after the great switch from unix to windows... we were towing our biggest warships to harbor because windows forgot about dividing by zero... it grounded helicopters in Kosovo as well. i always wondered what should happened to the people that were so incompetent as to do what the soviets wished they could do...
- PSUViking, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If American engineering as always been "the suck," how do you explain all of the extremely well designed and most highly used products which have come out of the US? If American enigineering sucks, who does a better job?
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What? "Star Wars" isn't working?
*enters bomb shelter* - jboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MDA should buy a router and hook the system to the Internet, so we can start tracking missiles on google earth.
- Brightside, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Would you like to play a game?
- JubbaG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sounds like the movie War Games.
- Izzie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been working for french "DoD" equivalent. After the integrated backdoor was discovered (software are thoroughfully tested and checked for security flaws and vulnerabilities) An analysis has been commanded. The study came up with a report that focus on how France became dependent on foreign countries for computer technology (both software and hardware). It discussed how french computer manufacturer once market leader were put to bankruptcy and talked about proprietary OS being a major concern and urged government to switch to open source OS (or to develop a reverse engineered windows-compatible OS as china has done)
As MS license renewal time was approching, MS increased their license fees to an unacceptable level. Almost immediatly a plan was built to switch as many workstation to openoffice and linux. MS didn't want to lose such a market and an undisclosed agreement has been made between french administration and MS. But administration workstations are being switched to openoffice anyways.
In a french military base, computers are not physically linked to external network, and even if most of the password can be found under the keyboard or something, physical access to computer is restricted, secured and logged. - DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so does this mean someone is going to be able to call up and whistle into the phone and have some nukes fired at china???
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5japan, germany a close second.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4in a nutshell - hack, boom headshot, world war 3
- TheShrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's because they use PC's!!!
No, it's because they use Macs!!!1
No... Any computer connected to a network is insecure by default - endgame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3American Engineering in the PAST has been amazing to say the least. Although currently we are really starting to lag behind other countries. Maybe we can outsource this project to India.....
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i can't say i know how it turned out but france and germany had law suits filed for industrial espionage against the U.S. because microsoft put back doors into windows for the NSA that we could use to spy on them. so... if that is true then microsoft has been in bed with the NSA for a long time.
i didn't look it up... just remembering. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I live in the state of NORAD. :D
- kaon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why did they switch to windows in the first place? You would think now with the NSA's Security Enhanced Linux all government and military networks would be using that. Even standard linux has reasonable user account management functions.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"American engineering has always been the suck"
Yeah, You know that ***** American Engineering and our whole inventing the airplane thing, wait..or maybe that piece of ***** F-18 Hornet...wait. Dumbass - BloodyPath, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8considering the us navy apparently uses windows variants on their warships (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/inaction/navy.asp), who's suprised?
- berzerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sounds like a prelude to sarah connors dream in t2
- DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It sounds like there are problems with access control and data security. While these are serious problems, they are problems relating to training, policy, and software configuration. None of these are insurmountable.
And while we're on the topic of defending the country, maybe there would be less panic about weaknesses in one of the defense systems if we didn't have a government that went around p'ing off the rest of the world so much. Hmm? :) - numba1xclusive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol, these terminator jokes are funny.
- kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hahahahahaha
- GrinningFool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These kids aren't gonna know what that means...
- zdlatham, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Or the Predator...B2...GPS...ability to drop a 2000lb bomb down your shorts anywhere in the world.
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thanks. As a non-American I still feel perfectly safe at this news. Anyone else should be slightly concerned.
- adamlazz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3thats pretty scary concidering that an entire country is at stake...
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1China is Nuking us and we fire missles but oohs noooes the bsod!!!!! we have to reboot in safe mode before we all die!!! double ooohs nooes they are using windows me so it takes 30 minues to start up!
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't read the article but "misuse", to me, would mean to use for another use than what it was intended. Don't they mean that it wouldn't work? If they meant it wouldn't work that has been proved long ago. The builders have been told to continue to build it even though it has not been proved to be viable. Even if it were to work in the test situations it has failed in it still wouldn't mean it would work in real situations where the attack would decoys to through the defense system off. It would be impossible to design such a system. Bush is responsible for a new arms race by doing this and other policies....he is the worst thing to ever happen to the United States.
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Big frickin deal. These are closed systems. Many of these things require you to have TS-SCI to begin with. That's after the physical security measures that prevent you from getting near these systems in the first place. This is the real world not the Hollywood world.
- Moppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's the one thing that should have a security flaw lol
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Now, what we really need is for a computer AI to control our missile defense systems. And offense systems at that. This computer AI can respond to attacks far faster than any human can. This way, our missile defense net would be inpenetrable. Now, all we need is a name for it... Skynet?
- lordkuri, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8The Navy has some of the oldest POS machines I've ever seen. But, it's the military, so it's "good enough".
I spent many years running comms on the USS Kennedy, and lemme tell you, the uplink gear they had back then was older than me... and hard as hell to keep running sometimes =)
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http://www.easyflashgames.com - Ignathius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"If American engineering as always been "the suck," how do you explain all of the extremely well designed and most highly used products which have come out of the US? If American enigineering sucks, who does a better job?"
excatally what products are you refering too?
and just about every other country does a better job at most everything than the US. - Bakfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Having a working missle shield sure would beat the hell out of putting on a gas mask and surfing the net. Im sure the Comm guys have life links and makes a for a good show like all the tank bombing and buildings blowing up.
- JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I love how this story is spreading so nicely. Hell, let's just tell the entire world of all of our security flaws in the military!
- celerate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Linux boot CDs are much less of a threat if you disable booting from the anything but the hard drive in the bios, and then set up an administrator password for the BIOS. I brought a Knoppix CD into school once and almost booted from it but booting off CD was disabled. I wasn't going to change the BIOS settings because I wasn't there to be malicious, but I could still have booted off a floppy since when the admin accidentally left Windows boot floppies in the drive that would be the default media used. I'm guessing one of the teachers told the admin later without specifically mentioning my name, and the guy finally turned the monitor resolutions up to 1024x768, something us students couldn't do because it was locked out.
- celerate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As far as I know every country is running old hardware, some don't even have that level of technology at their disposal.
- BloodyPath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I botched the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/inaction/navy.asp - BloodyPath, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3oh, and before i get hit with the "that's just a link about netmeeting" thing.. you're right, it is.
i was a USMC electro-ops ordinance repairer, 1/8 camp lejeune. all mission critical files were stored on windows pc's. in fact, all of everything was on windows. even "secured" hard drives were vulnerable to social engineering hacks (only password/storage protected; get user to log in, distract, owned.), and although im no cracker a linux boot cd would have probably been capable of seriously compromising security. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yeah, I mean, who in the right mind thinks that this whole 'Airplane' thing can EVER work.
And don't even get me started on electricity. Or the telephone... Or the internet. Or the personal computer. Or nuclear power & bombs...
The list goes on. - danaucpe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is fun to laugh about but totally stupid. The article is so vague they could mean anything. "prevent misuse of the system", is this I can read my favorite blog or I can launch missiles? "Boeing allowed the use of group passwords on the unencrypted portion of MDA’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) communications network." Does anyone know what kind of information is supposed to be passed around on this network? I am assuming its not "N Korea's shooting missiles at us Mr. Pres. What should we do?"
No Digg! - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Bosh, Iraq can take care of itself.
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2yeah now Bush takes this opportunity to attack hmm who this time? Ah yes Boeing :S
- justin22290, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1yeah buddy i be more scared of geting bomb or a missle shot at your country if u lived in the middle east....gatta suck
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3U S A! U S A!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2reason 3432 why boeing sucks. American engineering has always been the suck
- schwit, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3DUUUUUUUUUUPE!
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