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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by lowdose on Saturday January 04, 2020 @07:29AM (#21954554)
Last October the U.S. Military replaced the eight 1970s floppy disks controlling all nuclear missiles.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/10/19/us-milita...

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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by paulie_a on Saturday January 04, 2020 @09:26AM (#21955028)
They had no need to upgrade. If anything they had a massive need to downsize the inventory of weapons. Plus the security protection was shockingly irresponsible. The code was all zeros
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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by kortilla on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:36AM (#21955780)
Downsizing is orthogonal to needing to upgrade. You still need to maintain whatever amount remains and that could call for software upgrades in light of a new issue.
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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by adventured on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:26PM (#21956451)
The code hasn't been all zeros for 40 to 50 years. It was all zeros on some of the arsenal for about 15 years from ~1962 until ~1977.
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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by paulie_a on Sunday January 05, 2020 @01:14AM (#21959999)
That was clearly a great 15 years of the cold war to have all zeros as a nuclear weapon code.
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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by asveikau on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:39AM (#21955796)
Floppy disks physically degraded pretty easily. Seems like it could be a safety issue.
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Re:Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore by jjeaff on Sunday January 05, 2020 @12:51PM (#21962649)
I've heard that the unspoken truth of those launch sites is they are just being maintained for lack of orders to dismantle and that even in event of a nuclear war, they couldn't/wouldn't be used safely. The majority of the US's strategic nuclear arsenal would be fired from one of our nuclear equipped submarines.
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