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Golgafrinchan writes "Quoting from the story:
"A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.""
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"A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.""
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A WINDOWS virus. (Score:2)
Never, ever let the folks who CHOOSE to run the operating system off the hook.
The military doesn't need Windows. It can do exactly what it did when we converted TO Windows in the 1980s. We got the order (emphasis, "order") to do it and we did it.
The transition to GUI instead of fast, efficient text entry of maintenance data was quite annoying and hurt productivity compared to dropdown menus, BTW.
Retaliation? (Score:2)