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Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship

Posted by samzenpus on from the scuttle-the-ship's-computer dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Some Things Never Change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:SITTING DUCK by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

    Wouldn't you then prefer that the guns actually work?

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  3. What a name. by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:SITTING DUCK by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why don't we save the country...

    By slashing Military spending to just double the closest US rival - from 500%?

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    Never been known to fail..."
  5. Re:SITTING DUCK by quonsar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

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    Sacred cows make the best burgers.

  6. Re:SITTING DUCK by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WAR!

    What is is good for?

    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.

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    "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"