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More on the Swedish Stealth Ship

Posted by michael on from the fnord-in-the-fjord dept.

Dr.Knackerator writes "The BBC is running a story on Sweden's new carbon fibre stealth ship, the Visby. As well as being the first stealth ship, it is controlled by 'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system'. 'But Kockums and the Swedish Navy deny it could be sabotaged by hackers and say that even if it did they could fall back to traditional steering and navigation'." We had a previous story about this as well.

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  1. Re:Doesn't the US have a stealth Ship? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly; this Swedish ship isn't the first stealth ship, it's the first stealth ship that didn't work. So know everyone knows about it.

  2. Re:Hmmm. by lcsjk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Enlighten Me. How long did it take to get the M-16 into production?

  3. people will never learn by NeedleSurfer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have WindowsNT but our version is secure and stable, turns out Bill was keeping a copy of it for us. It's a special magical copy of Windows that has been stripped out of every bug (they're listed in the registry, you just have to know how to find the .bug file related to the registry entry and voilà). It's a special version, for special client, people who actually have the capacity to kill Bill... like the navy for example.

  4. Sarcasm? by polyp2000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system"

    Are they trying to be sarcastic or something ?

    Ultimately this has a "Titanic" ring to it.

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