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Hacking Nuclear Command and Control
The Walking Dude writes "The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) has released an unclassified report exploring the possibility of cyber terrorists launching nuclear weapons. Ominous exploits include unreliable early warning sensors, unsecure nuclear weapons storage, transportation blunders, breaches in the chain of command, and the use of Windows on nuclear submarines. A traditional large-scale terrorist attack, such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, could be combined with computer network operations in an attempt to start a nuclear war. Amidst the confusion of the traditional attack, communications could be disrupted, false declarations of war could be issued on both sides, and early warning sensors could be spoofed. Adding to this is the short time frame in which a retaliatory nuclear response must be decided upon, in some cases as little as 15 minutes. The amount of firepower that could be unleashed in these 15 minutes would be equivalent to approximately 100,000 Hiroshima bombs."
If it truly is that easy, then we're all doomed.
In reality, though, those 18-year-old kids are programmed to think and act in the military way. They are NOT expected to produce independent thought nor to come to conclusions on their own. There is no realistically conceivable situation where this programming is subverted and that button gets pressed. Not without direct intervention of the system itself, which would be impossible to defend against anyway.
fuck you and the bus you rode in. You and the retarded idiot moderator who lack the ability to recognize humor. May your mothers be raped by fifty AIDS carrying goats while your father's suck the sperm from your mother's assholes after each goat. Fucking retarded sacks of shit who engage in anal sex with each other because your faggot asses can only swallow dicks. and I don't give a fuck about karma fucktards, figured that out yet?