Pentagon's weapons easily hacked

[The New California Republic]

Stuff like this, even if it was just a test, is one of the few reasons I'm actually glad most of our nuclear missiles are run off cold war-era technology.

Yeah, I heard the DOD uses an old IBM from the seventies as a tertiary nuclear control system.

To be honest I genuinely believe that there are still useful applications of vacuum tube computers in some parts of the military, for example in areas where miniaturization and speed are not essential. I'm sure if someone designed a new vacuum tube computer using modern materials and expertise that it would be much smaller and more energy efficient than the old models.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Yeah, I heard the DOD uses an old IBM from the seventies as a tertiary nuclear control system.

To be honest I genuinely believe that there are still useful applications of vacuum tube computers in some parts of the military, for example in areas where miniaturization and speed are not essential. I'm sure if someone designed a new vacuum tube computer using modern materials and expertise that it would be much smaller and more energy efficient than the old models.

That is logical.

[Uxupox]

Every new weapons system that uses some kind of IT technology in it should be put through its paces by an IT OPFOR team, to test it for vulnerabilities before it is accepted for service. How that isn't standard OP already I will never know, as it isn't as if the computer age has suddenly creeped up on the military...

eh this "tends" to happen.