Man, I feel sorry for British Submariners
Dec. 18th, 2008 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThey've switched their submarines to Microsoft Windows.
Talk about a blue screen of death.
I just hope they're totally sealed systems with no available USB ports: the US Army in Iraq has been having a terrible time with viruses and trojans from people bringing in infected flash drives and porn movies.
In fact, the US Navy tried a Windows-based ship a few years back and it was an abject failure. I just hope it doesn't prove to be the same for the Brits.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/18/006226
Talk about a blue screen of death.
I just hope they're totally sealed systems with no available USB ports: the US Army in Iraq has been having a terrible time with viruses and trojans from people bringing in infected flash drives and porn movies.
In fact, the US Navy tried a Windows-based ship a few years back and it was an abject failure. I just hope it doesn't prove to be the same for the Brits.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/18/006226
