Dave Keys

Cause Of Our Not So Secret Vulnerability

If you haven’t heard, many of our national infrastructure systems are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Why? Could the problem be force feeding of government agencies with Windows software as the backbone of systems too big to fail?

In this article, a battleship, the USS Yorktown was brought down in the middle of live operations by, you guessed it, WIndows, NT in this case which remains the basis of the windows core OS. Are there viruses developed by our enemies, designed to take advantage of the chasms in the Windows OS we glibly call security holes, waiting to be released during war? We’re dependent on foreign oil and have little choice about that, but should we be dependent on domestic commercial software too?

If you believe that corporations would be willing to make a little less money in order not to put the nation — their nation — at risk, you should read Richard Clarke’s excellent, just-issued book, Cyber War.As Clarke reports, prior to the 1990s, the Pentagon made extensive use of specialized software designed by in-house programmers and a few defense contractors.
If you believe that corporations would be willing to make a little less money in order not to put the nation — their nation — at risk, you should read Richard Clarke’s excellent, just-issued book, Cyber War.
As Clarke reports, prior to the 1990s, the Pentagon made extensive use of specialized software designed by in-house programmers and a few defense contractors.

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Tags: Cyber, Fail, Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows, OS, security, Virus, Vulnerability, war, Yorktown