Reply to post: Re: BAE Systems will carry out the upgrade

Blighty's nuclear deterrent will get a software upgrade amid cyber-war fears

Sir Sham Cad

Re: BAE Systems will carry out the upgrade

Like for example any of this lot:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-739/cvssscoremin-5/cvssscoremax-5.99/Microsoft-Windows-Xp.html

Don't get me wrong, XP was streets ahead of previous Windows version for stability at the time but that time was a long, long time ago. If nothing else it doesn't support UAP so elevated priviledges is a potential worry.

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