[Cialug] This floppy stands between you and armageddon

[Matt]

Stuxnet was actually introduced into the code loaded onto the PLCs that control the centrifuge motors at the factory.  What this means is that you shouldn't buy hardware with firmware that passed through the hands of your enemy.

In this case, having ancient hardware is a good thing, since it might actually have been made in the USA.  :)

Nothing on the market today is made anywhere but China (or countries that China mutters under its breath every once in a while that it owns... Taiwan, Korea...).

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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> On Apr 28, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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