Crash strike caution
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| If Microfot's Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
| screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
| life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
| USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows
| NT-based control system failed.
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| In fact, such networking could be a security risk. Western nations are
| becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attack from hostile nations,
| terrorist groups and criminal syndicates, and an increasing reliance in
| civilian technologies by intelligence and military agencies is having an
| adverse effect on national security.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/crash-strike-caution/2007/04/09/1175971018555.html
What O/S did Britain's nuclear subs choose to run again...?
Open source software is the only solution here. Visibility is trust.
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