"Delivering a too dry to quote speech nobody listened to, at a Army nerds conference in a sleepy media-ed city, an overpaid information janitor supervisor admitted she had no idea how armored vehicles operate or are employed. However, the pentagon drone went on to explain that the way they would like to stucture future forces' communications would make them inherently susceptible to script kiddies and micro$oft blue screens."
Given the development cycle of ground combat vehicles, the danger of "hackers" having any impact of operations is less of a possibility than a general lack of hostilities drying up the money for bullets (or new mil-tech). The bulk of fielded M1's are M1-A1HC's or worse, and lack anything that wasn't "infiltratable" with meaconing, intrusion and jamming since Vietnam. It would be nice if CNN would contrast feature press releases with reports about military families on food stamps but the cycle of re-enforcing necessary fictions of tech remains king.
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Given the development cycle of ground combat vehicles, the danger of "hackers" having any impact of operations is less of a possibility than a general lack of hostilities drying up the money for bullets (or new mil-tech). The bulk of fielded M1's are M1-A1HC's or worse, and lack anything that wasn't "infiltratable" with meaconing, intrusion and jamming since Vietnam. It would be nice if CNN would contrast feature press releases with reports about military families on food stamps but the cycle of re-enforcing necessary fictions of tech remains king.