Re:U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillan...
by aerostable_slug on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:21PM
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DSP doesn't depend on any external networks. There are mobile receiver terminals that can receive their transmissions and relay warning to combatant commanders. There's actually a funny little national guard post that houses those doomsday trucks. Another interesting garage is at F.E. Warren (mobile STRATCOM survivable NC3).
Re:U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillan...
by Retric on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:51PM
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Assuming they didn’t depend on ground stations for anything in 1998 that might poke a hole in the story. On the other hand you can’t exactly use one of those inside NORAD’s bunker so they could have been blind until someone setup an independent relay.
Re:U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillan...
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:05PM
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The whole early warning system was not down, Long range radars are independent, not connected to the internet, and in the worst case they could use a phone and smoke signals. There was no credible nuclear threat.
Given that you can't refer anyone to anything written, this whole story defies logic and smells of a dead possum.
Lack of ICBM’s was assumed, but on the moment when your early warning system goes down while your preparing for an invasion it’s hard to stay rational.
The plausible scenario as to why the warning system went down is ARPA net was designed to keep military computers in contact through a nuclear attack. ARPA net became the internet but before SIPERnet and so it was still being used to keep those critical systems in contact. Hackers compromised those systems, because the military was using the same sendmail software as everyone else.
Now for us looking backwards it’s like wait what about computer security, but it largely didn’t exist back then.