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UFO's VS faulty cabling - who can bring down more nukes?

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blowfish said:
Maybe someone was testing there cyber skills
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It is highly unlikely that these systems have any visibility on the Internet. These are no doubt highly isolated systems. The only way to 100% guard against such things is to have no outside connections whatsoever. A cable problem also seems terribly unlikely but entirely possible. Maintaining connectivity in large systems is highly problematic although I have no doubt whatsoever that systems like this are extremely over-engineered with triple redundancy and other precautions to prevent such a 'mechanical' failure. Maybe some yahoo slipped a contaminated disk into the wrong disk drive and a virus got into the system. Who knows? I'm going with multi-tentacled cephalopod busy-bodies of a White Rose Society chapter from another dimension though. (shakes fist at the ceiling) Presumptuous bastards!
 
trainedobserver said:
It is highly unlikely that these systems have any visibility on the Internet. These are no doubt highly isolated systems. The only way to 100% guard against such things is to have no outside connections whatsoever. A cable problem also seems terribly unlikely but entirely possible. Maintaining connectivity in large systems is highly problematic although I have no doubt whatsoever that systems like this are extremely over-engineered with triple redundancy and other precautions to prevent such a 'mechanical' failure. Maybe some yahoo slipped a contaminated disk into the wrong disk drive and a virus got into the system. Who knows? I'm going with multi-tentacled cephalopod busy-bodies of a White Rose Society chapter from another dimension though. (shakes fist at the ceiling) Presumptuous bastards!
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They should use a Mac.
 
pixelsmith said:
They should use a Mac.
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I think its a given that their systems and any software running on them are all proprietary and bear little or no resemblance to anything commercially available. I could be wrong but I think there is good reason to believe that is the situation.

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Decker said:
Well, I maintain that somebody forgot to pay the electrical bill. Wouldn't surprise me.
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Given the fact that Rummy admitted that the Pentagon had "lost" a trillion f'ing dollars on 9/10/2001 that would not surprise me in the slightest. In all reality I think they may have their own power generation plants.
 
trainedobserver said:
It is highly unlikely that these systems have any visibility on the Internet. These are no doubt highly isolated systems. The only way to 100% guard against such things is to have no outside connections whatsoever. A cable problem also seems terribly unlikely but entirely possible. Maintaining connectivity in large systems is highly problematic although I have no doubt whatsoever that systems like this are extremely over-engineered with triple redundancy and other precautions to prevent such a 'mechanical' failure. Maybe some yahoo slipped a contaminated disk into the wrong disk drive and a virus got into the system. Who knows? I'm going with multi-tentacled cephalopod busy-bodies of a White Rose Society chapter from another dimension though. (shakes fist at the ceiling) Presumptuous bastards!
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I never said they were on internet activity and you don't need to be on the internet to intrupt with cyber tech some suggest:)
 
Also, pre-emptively: 'Why would western Europeans care'..probably because those things are aimed in our 'general' direction.
 
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