War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers

Jason Straight writes "There's a story at pcworld, that describes how navy warships will be equipped with 802.11b networking to allow the captain to control the ship from anywhere on the ship. " The point of the article also gets into the issue of cutting manpower for the ships - going from 300 people on each to destroyer to 90, and makes the point that the only way to do is through automation.

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not just wep

[sundip01]

here's hoping they use more than just WEP to protect the damn thing....airsnort...

oh well, now all those green peace boats sailing by can get wireless access and look at all the pr0n passing through the chilly sea air....

Good news for Al Quaida

[Black Copter Control]

No need for suicide missions any more. . . I can just see the incident report:

A little white dinghy pulled up along side the ship. There were three people in the boat. Two of them stood up and screamed something about "Allah Akbar", the third appeared to be hunched over a laptop.
The next thing we knew, the bow gun was firing at the bridge. (I didn't think it could do that... It must have been just a software limitation).

The hard part, of course, is going to be figuring out the encryption codes (thank god for quantum computing).