[Cialug] This floppy stands between you and armageddon

[David Champion]

I don't think you'll see a lot of people distributing stuxnet type viruses
on 8" floppies.

I actually used 8" floppies in HS at SEP, we had some Xerox 820-II CP/M
computers for our programming classes.

-dc


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Nathan C. Smith <NSmith at hhlawpc.com>wrote:

> Fortunately the USB ports on those 60's era computers are correspondingly
> large making smuggling in a 60's era USB golf cart-drive a challenge for
> would-be saboteurs
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of Todd Walton
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 9:33 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] This floppy stands between you and armageddon
>
> America's feared nuclear missile facilities are still controlled by
> computers from the 1960s and floppy disks:
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614323/Americas-feared-nuclear-missile-facilities-controlled-computers-1960s-floppy-disks.html
>
> They make it out to be a thing, but I say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it."  Now... if only there were a way to know if it were broke or not...
>
> I love this line:
>
> "But security officials maintain their methods are not only functional but
> hack-free, with the underground control room in Wyoming not connected to
> the internet, stopping any cyber terrorists gaining control over the
> weapons."
>
> As a reminder, Iran's nuclear power plants weren't on the internet either,
> and that didn't stop Stuxnet.
>
> --
> Todd
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