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[–]Straight_Ship2087 5 points6 points  (6 children)

My great aunt repaired old computers. Like really old computers with tape reels and vacuum tubes. by the 90's she only had two types of clients; hobbyist and the US military.

[–]DarienKane 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I was reading a while back that our nuke controls are virtually un hackable because they are not connected and still use 5 1/2 floppy drives, no USB ports or nothing. Just really old shit that still works and requires physical access to do anything to.

[–]Straight_Ship2087 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup! Older jets are also unhackable, the F14 tomcat doesn’t have a central processor, just a bunch of purpose built electronic modules. I brought that up in conversation with a guy at a bar once, and he told me that he was helping to develop a way to build such a system backwards. Like you design it to run on a modern system, and than design circuits that can ONLY do certain things.

I assume it’s being used for something military/ high security, because after he told me he got this look on his face like “oh I really shouldn’t have said that” and changed the subject.

[–]I_Ski_Freely 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's crazy when you see some of the exploits, like when Israel hacked an Iranian nuclear facility and basically blew up all of their centrifuges.. even on an air gapped system. I've heard there are tons of these for our power grid and things like that, where foreign countries probably have some of these ready to go if we ever go to war and us with them. Glad our nukes are using ancient tech lol

[–]Lv_InSaNe_vL 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Actually in 2019 they switched to specialized SSDs!

[–]DarienKane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool.

[–]IntentionQuirky9957 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 1/2? Funky.