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Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship
An anonymous reader writes with some potentially troubling news about some security issues with the Navy's newest class of coastal warships."A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, the lead vessel in the $37 billion Littoral Combat Ship program, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Freedom arrived in Singapore last week for an eight-month stay, which its builder, Lockheed Martin Corp., hopes will stimulate Asian demand for the fast, agile and stealthy ships.
'We do these types of inspections across the fleet to find individual vulnerabilities, as well as fleet-wide trends,' said the official."
Surprisingly, much of the US Navy's job is to advertise, cf the Great White Fleet and various other show the flag exercises, it's just this time the shipbuilder foolishly thinks that the advertising being done is "buy our stuff" and not "do you REALLY want to mess with us?" I'd not be surprised if the Freedom hasn't already got orders for the North China Sea to "advertise" to the DPRK and is just taking Liberty Call to replenish and resupply before they go.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
It should give pause to anyone joining the military that our citizens, and our own government would seek to arm the rest of the world, potentially to be used against us. better to stay in school, join the military industrial complex and create the weapons, rather than be paid a pittance and die prematurely on the battlefield. Take a page from our congressional leaders.
Fixed? You call running your propulsion control and maneuvering systems on windows nt fixed? This is simply laughable.
Such systems should only be run on a completely independent tactical network and run only on bulletproof RTOS's.
Wouldn't you then prefer that the guns actually work?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
USS Freedom.
What a name, just like something out of a satirical comic book. Seriously, you 'murricans seem to have a fetish for the word, but the more you use it, the more you seem to forget its actual meaning.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Why don't we save the country...
By slashing Military spending to just double the closest US rival - from 500%?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"So, we have a warship design that is not expected to fight and survive in the very environment in which it was produced to do so. Poorly-armed, poorly-protected, with an over-abundance of speed that will eat through a fuel supply in half a day."
Clearly, it was designed to turn tail and run. And by God, it performs that mission to perfection.
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Ask that of the survivors of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, among others.
We might also mention the American Civil War and the American Revolution.
Taking down Napoleon might count too.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
All the "grand causes" you cite as fixed by wars, were casused by wars.
Ask that of the survivors of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, among others.
Without Germany's war of expansion, the victims of these would have been limited to "undesirables" in the domestic population only, rather than including those of Germany's neighbours.
Napoleon wouldn't have been a problem if not for the wars he started, either.
Basically, if you had a magic button that would prevent all war, everywhere, pressing it would be a net positive. Unfortunately, we don't have that - all we have is control over whether *we* go to war.