DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities

Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by InitialLastName on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:25PM (#18179539)

> And really, the first case is no worse than the old days with manual controls that just anybody could walk up and fiddle with.

In that case, you could trust physical security to some extent; someone really not intended to be in contact with the device could be prevented from doing so by some dude with a big gun. Now, those devices are networked, so someone could figure out an access method and use it on all the devices in the field at will.

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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:44PM (#18180062)

While not trying to reason from fictional evidence, this reminds me of Battlestar Galactica. In the series, they made a point of Galactica running on non-networked computers (unlike the rest of the fleet), as networking them together made it easy for the adversary to pwn the whole ship.

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