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Doesn’t a bunch of military equipment still run WinXP?
U.S. military doesn't run standard versions of Windows and many if not most military terminals don't connect to World Wide Web.
Not perfect but if it's only connectd to Army intranet, might not be vulnerable?
That question mark instills a lot of confidence.
The biggest vulnerability in most computer systems are people. Many Soldiers are too lazy to save or encrypt thier files and lose them or comprise them all the time.
A computer system that isn't designed to and doesn't need to connect to the World Wide Web should be safe. If no one, for example decides they want to access a certain civilian website and so finds a way to connect their terminal to the World Wide Web, compromising it.
I'm sure you're aware, but the internet and the "world wide web" are different things. The common term for what you're describing is air gapping.
Yes, world wide web isn't the right term in this case. Proper term is just internet and it is an air gapped network.
ah, Military "Security".
Neat, didn't know that and am unfortunately not very surprised. Yeah, can, on paper, design robust SOPs and machines, then set the passcode to 0.
Can you expand on this with some more detail?
I’ve worked on DoD networks continuously since 2011 and nothing you said is true, provided I understood you correctly.
I am more referring to the U.S. Army intranet system. Which while some services can be accessed from the internet, some can only be accessed while connected to the Army Intranet. The Amry uses alot of terminals, computers, that have no need to connect to the internet but only the Army intranet.
Also, the Army modfies some of the programs and hardwere they use, such as Windows from their standard commercial versions, removing or changing features and such.
Embedded systems may technically run an OS or on and OS, but they’re really their own thing.