One question I have of computer systems in general is the inherent security of them. If I remember correctly the US Navy was using Windows NT as a platform for some sort of usage. In my opinion relying on something like Windows NT which is not auditable in source. Is a probably and definite security hole. I'm not saying that open source is the key. But I believe that at least for military usage the software and operating systems specificaly should have to go through some realistic sort of source code auditing. I realy would not like my air defense systems crashing because of a buffer overflow.
The main thing that comes to mind when reading this is the fact that a person with about 1k US$ to spare can go to radioshack and pick up the parts for a machine which will "crash" an unshielded soldid state computer. Things like that are in my opinion the worst threat. Hackers can only do so much, but a terrorist with one some type of EMP, or other such, device could just disable some important facility. Think about air control towers, are those computers shielded? How about 911 dispatches? I could be wrong, if I am tell me.
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One question I have of computer systems in general is the inherent security of them. If I remember correctly the US Navy was using Windows NT as a platform for some sort of usage. In my opinion relying on something like Windows NT which is not auditable in source. Is a probably and definite security hole. I'm not saying that open source is the key. But I believe that at least for military usage the software and operating systems specificaly should have to go through some realistic sort of source code auditing. I realy would not like my air defense systems crashing because of a buffer overflow.
The main thing that comes to mind when reading this is the fact that a person with about 1k US$ to spare can go to radioshack and pick up the parts for a machine which will "crash" an unshielded soldid state computer. Things like that are in my opinion the worst threat. Hackers can only do so much, but a terrorist with one some type of EMP, or other such, device could just disable some important facility. Think about air control towers, are those computers shielded? How about 911 dispatches? I could be wrong, if I am tell me.