Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk)

Chrisq shares a report from The Telegraph: Fears have been raised that Britain's largest ever warship could be vulnerable to cyber attacks after it emerged it appears to be running the outdated Microsoft Windows XP. A defense source told The telegraph that some of the on-board hardware and software "would have been good in 2004" when the carrier was designed, "but now seems rather antiquated." However, he added that HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to be given a computer refit within a decade. And senior officers said they will have cyber specialists on board to defend the carrier from such attacks.

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Cyber specialists

[manu0601]

they will have cyber specialists on board to defend the carrier from such attacks

They are supposed to defend unsupported proprietary software. The right name is not cyber specialist, but rather priest.

Is there even a word for this level of stupidity?

[JustNiz]

The die-cision to use anything from Microsoft in a mission-critical environment, let alone a 16+ year old OS with a giant list of known exploits goes so far beyond amazingly stupid I can't even find the words.