[Cialug] This floppy stands between you and armageddon

[Andrew Denner]

Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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