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US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Is it all that bad?

We may be better off with the nukes being controlled by some ancient unhackable system.

The last thing I want is the control system for a nuke sending out a LinkedIn friend request or being held to ransom by some hacker wanting 1000 bitcoin to relinquish control!!

And when the real crunch comes, "we can't launch the missiles at the critical moment because the paperclip icon is trying to convince us we need an OS update"

We've had some truly great advances in IT that these systems have missed out on.

;)

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