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Re:US military and intelligence computer networks (2015) by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:24PM (#25752080)
>> Given the recent SolarWinds breach I wonder how these networks are impacted.

Classified military networks are very different than civilian networks. They aren't just air-gapped. Because they are not general purpose networks they can have lots of internal barriers that would not be acceptable outside of the military. Want to use HDMI for your new screen? Nope. VGA because it doesn't require compute power within the screen. Want to use a Bluetooth headset? Nope. You are stuck with a curly wire from 1972 because that wire has passed the emissions security inspections. Such principals extend to the internal barriers too. Important national security websites can look like personal websites from the 1990s not because they are not updated but because they are very restricted in how they can load information from other sources. The fact that these networks look old doesn't mean they are behind the curve on security.

Got too many passwords to remember? Want a "password manager"... lol. Good luck with that in a world where computer A isn't even allowed to be in the same room as computer B.

Re:US military and intelligence computer networks (2015) by euler_angles on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:45PM (#25755051)
We aren't allowed to use VGA because it's vulnerable to being sniffed. Everything has to be hdmi or display port/mini display port
Re:US military and intelligence computer networks (2015) by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:07PM (#25755287)
It depends on the threat profile. In an emissions secure zone, inside a big metal box like say a ship, the chance of a bug in the monitor's hdmi circuitry can be higher than the risk of the vga being sniffed.
Re:US military and intelligence computer networks (2015) by p_l on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:39PM (#25755652)
Funnily enough a static configuration HDMI display needs no special circuitry, as it's essentially VGA that didn't pass a DAC and you can spam it directly to LCD matrix.
Re:US military and intelligence computer networks (2015) by _kbh_ on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:12AM (#25759140)
If theres a chance of there being a bug in the HDMI circuitry isn't there just as much chance of there being a bug in VGA?.