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Did Iran Just Retaliate For Stuxnet? Computer Virus Infects US Predator Drone System
It was only a matter of time: the weakest link in the otherwise awesome idea that is a remote-controlled military, represented by the thousands of Predator and Reaper drones, has always been its biggest strength: the fact that it is remote-controlled. Which means that with no person on location, the system has always been susceptible to infiltration in the form of intermediation between the offsite pilot and the actual equipment. Such as a virus. And as Wired reports, a viral infestation, the biggest nightmare for the the US drone fleet, has just struck. "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." Well that is truly Ironic: the "western" world tried to cripple (and failed) Iran's nuclear program with Stuxnet; it will, then, be supremely ironic if Iran retaliates by maxing out the credit cards of the US Air Force logging the credit card number as pilots purchase stuff online, and uses these to buy weaponized plutonium from Russia using Uncle Sam's credit card.
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“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
Ah yes, the good old "it's a benign viral infestation of a top-secret military system" excuse. It's a classic. Works everytimg too.
And more:
Military network security specialists aren’t sure whether the virus and its so-called “keylogger” payload were introduced intentionally or by accident; it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks. The specialists don’t know exactly how far the virus has spread. But they’re sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech. That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command.
Drones have become America’s tool of choice in both its conventional
and shadow wars, allowing U.S. forces to attack targets and spy on its
foes without risking American lives. Since President Obama assumed
office, a fleet of approximately 30 CIA-directed drones have hit targets
in Pakistan more than 230 times; all told, these drones have killed more than 2,000 suspected militants and civilians, according to the Washington Post.
More than 150 additional Predator and Reaper drones, under U.S. Air
Force control, watch over the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. American
military drones struck 92 times in Libya between mid-April and late August. And late last month, an American drone killed top terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki — part of an escalating unmanned air assault in the Horn of Africa and southern Arabian peninsula.
But despite their widespread use, the drone systems are known to have
security flaws. Many Reapers and Predators don’t encrypt the video they
transmit to American troops on the ground. In the summer of 2009, U.S.
forces discovered “days and days and hours and hours” of the drone footage on the laptops of Iraqi insurgents. A $26 piece of software allowed the militants to capture the video.
Next up: "terrorists" intercept control of America's drone system. That may explain why authorities are mulling the consequences of a New York nuclear strike. News not at eleven.
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I blame China or Bush
it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks.
Or bored Afghan school children.
And as many already knew, the OWS and it's subsidiary "movements" is nothing more than Ogolfer's re-election campaign:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/dc-organizer-admits-to-paying-%e2%80%98occup...
It's easy to identify who are the ones paid and who are the "useful idiotic sheep" who fall into the trap...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/moveon-org-hijacks-occupy-to-push-obama-tax-...
shit...i hope i don't get shot by "mistake" now?
The only way Barry & Associates (including the Zionist warmongers) can justify a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran is by staging another false flag attack on continental United States: most likely a controlled nuclear explosion (dirty bomb) targeting a major urban concentration that may kill dozens of thousands of civilians. This operation will be carried out by the CIA in partnership with Mossad and MI6 to subsequently be blamed on AlQaeda working in conjunction with elements of Iran's IRGC and Pakistan's ISI. Besides that, Americans are a bunch of stupid animals easy to manipulate and subdue. The psychological impact of this event will elicit the brute and ignorant populace to demand a massive retaliation against the alleged perpetrators (explicitly Iran); the Obama administration will need the unconditional support of these mules in order to further their agenda.
So we've heard, Wanklord. Thanks.
What a bunch of fucking idiots the people running these systems must be. It is not that hard to keep a critical network separate and quarantined. And to ensure that software updates are not the vector for a virus you have other software that checks the behavior of the systems afterwards to ensure no anomalies. Must be amateur hour over at military IT. I guess we should not be surprised...
I'm sure when the drones start bombing Americans within American borders they now will have a convenient scapegoat.
Look at the bright side. According to some "experts" (read fucking morons) a nuclear blast in New York would be very beneficial to the economy.
long funeral homes
I guess I should look at who is posting before I read the drivel, but from habit, I don't. I do, however, instantly recognize, as soon as I see the phrase "stupid animals" that it is wanklord trolling again. Dood, google some new adjectives.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection. Yes, obviously familiar with them because he/she could never figure out how to get them off their home PC, let alone the drone control net.
That quote was out of context anyway. He was talking about a sticky spot that keeps showing up in the middle of the space bar. Weird, huh?
Hey! I gots one-o-dem, too! Dis shit's creepy....
This would explain the burning sensation whenever they pvp
"What a bunch of fucking idiots the people running these systems must be. It is not that hard to keep a critical network separate and quarantined. "
I couldnt agree more.
@Fukushima Sam, this story doesn't even do their idiocy justice. I wonder how many here heard about the guy who hacked into the US gov because all their Windoze admin passwords were blank. He went to them and told them this, because he saw domains all over the world connected, likely stealing national secrets, but all they did was throw the book at him. This is the type of security you get from a company like HBGary apparently.
Indeed. It is commong practive to air-gap user networks from those networks with things that go boom or that make a big mess when they go boom....like gas pipelines, nuke plants, dams, sewage treatment plants, mac n' cheese lines (flour is quite explosive in aerosol form)
Tell that to the Iranians.
It's probably just another deliberate leak to justify another budget increase of an additional gazillion dollars?
lol, twice
There's a reason that Jericho tv series got canceled. Hint: find what is still out there and listen to it.
There's a reason that Jericho tv series got canceled. Hint: find what is still out there and listen to it.
Jericho was good television. Once it became clear where the shows plot was going, you just knew it would get cancelled due to bad ratings.
They were operating too close to a possible reality scenario.
Us 'mules' are the last major concentration of people on earth who retain most of their right to self defense. That makes everyone else look like the dumb ones - and the real sheeple.
Yep, Ahme... - and consequently, Tyler, - Iran needs no plutonium to destroy U.S.
U.S. is destroying itself very well. This figment of imagination "Melting Pot" - is hot - with general fragmentation and social disintegration.
By next summer it will be clear to all that the U.S. - this pseudo union - is crumbling.
Iran is a proxy for China. China can easily infect all our critical systems. They make components for everything we use. Their "students" have taken most of the slots at our colleges, tech companies and even national labs.
Here's a brilliant idea. Let's invite 5 million of their of their troops over to do joint drills with our guys. /sarcasm off
Hah! They'd be done for. Why, you may ask? Of course, after coming to America, getting introduced to the joys of shopping, pornography, beer, BBQ and (if we're really smart) blowjobs from accomodating locals, I think your Chicom grunts will be defecting faster than you can say "Hit me again, and put it on that guy's tab". Of course, then they'd be as bad as the locals, but threat neutralized.
"Here's a brilliant idea. Let's invite 5 million of their of their troops over to do joint drills with our guys. /sarcasm off"
Good post, good point - got me thinking, as an ex-Infantry officer, that you may be - sarc aside - sort of right.
Think about it. China is not a friend to Islam (except when they are fucking with us) and the Islam-style jihadists giving them some problems in Western China currently. It is not beyond possibility that the growing problems to China from this (along with the other problems they are having) just *might* result in some joint training, starting with officer/nco specialized anti-Islam type training, and moving on to limited joint forces training.
This sounds really, really out there nuts, right now. Probably is - god knows I've been wrong plenty on this screwed up market lately.
But when our (foreign) anti-terrorist interests and China's intersect on the Islam jihadist 'problem' - well, hatred/fear of a common enemy can overcome a shitpot load of mutual distrust and enemity to yield a limited amount of cooperation.
You read it on ZH first... ;-)
@Eureka
Your right.
There's more than debt to destroy the union. The 'melting pot' has clearly fucked up this nation. It's the fragmentation you speak of that allows politicians to pull at people's heartstrings for a 'fairer' or 'more just' union by fucing over those of us who have saved.
Fascism, it's in town and it's in style.
I remember seeing a documentary in mid 70's (I for the life of me cannot find it) that had a russian scientist laughing about the nukes war between USSR and USA. He stated it wouldnt happen, since russia was just going to wait and the US would destroy itself from within. He was laughing how we were allowing the low lifes to breed (he said a certain race which I wont repeat) and just suck the life out of the working peoples output. We would collapse from 'them' being a burden on society and low and behold, just walk around and look at the HUGE fat lazy slobs, or gangs killing each other.
Go team!!
I wonder how many sober grandchildren that Russian scientist has today.
I laughed at the end. Up til then it was just some really sad, sad stuff. Sad because there's some real truth there. This system will never force people to refrain from breeding when they can't pay their family's way. The system's interest is in maximum dependency, but that's about to become self-defeating for them. Short of constant dilution of the currency, there's no way to pay for all of the handouts. And yeah, they're handouts mostly - it's someone else's money at this point, even with SS and Medicare. Consider the thinking behind demanding those programs continue: people know they are paying for current retirees, and that future generations will have to pay for their benefits. They're agreeing to pony up, so long as someone else is held at gunpoint in the future (their kids, usually), when their turn comes for payout. "I'll be a slave so long as I get my chance to hold the whip." Collectivists love this kind of thinking, it insures their place in power.
So long as the state insures that every child is fed and clothed and housed (they do, so long as a man isn't in the picture) the irresponsible will continue to outbreed the responsible, period. It will take the prospect of starvation or having to appeal to charity (as opposed to entitlement) for things to change. Or, we could start cutting the nuts off men who 'father' children and abandon them. I know people hate the left-right bizness, but look at the control freak leftists: They say not having health insurance is an unfair burden to place on society. But men can use any woman they can find for their pleausure and saddle taxpayers with new welfare cases, year after year, no problem.
I know people hate the left-right bizness, but look at the control freak leftists: They say not having health insurance is an unfair burden to place on society. But men can use any woman they can find for their pleausure and saddle taxpayers with new welfare cases, year after year, no problem.
You raise a decent point, but this only works if the control freak rightists prevent those women from aborting their impoverished and unwanted spawn.
What's funny is, I'd betcha that the most vociferous opponents of unlimited breeding of useless eaters would also tend to be the most adamant pro-life advocates.
Maybe seems kind of a little bit of blame to go 'round.
Personally, I'm for aborting everyone, but it's not because I'm a leftist or anything, it's just 'cause I hate fuckin' kids.
I only hate them when they're innocent and still in the womb. Once they get past that 9-month 'lump of tissue' phase they can sometimes be cute. Disclosure: I've never had an abortion, so I really have no business talking about it. Same with rape, and child abuse. And running an international bank.
I am for mandatory retroactive abortions prosecuted under the currency act of 1792. Let's start with DC and wall street. "We got plenty of street lamps".
Rats breed more when they're fed less. H. Sapiens does the same. Why do you think the birth rate in Italy is so much less than in the Congo?
Don't be a dumb fuck!
I was wondering when the america haters would return.
We have outlived two centuries of europe expecting this crazy american experiment to collapse. I bet we last a bit longer.
Don't you understand? We don't want to play the Game! It is stupid. You IVY league CIA drone flying US citizen murdering f***s can go f*** yourselves! The MIC which likes grinding rich American peasants and poor Afghani serfs for a couple hundred billion can also go f*** itself and die. The People want to be free and left the F*** alone!
The MIC and empire is a perversion of the american experiment. I hope it disappears too.
We dont have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It's all controlled from the City of London. Americans are just colonial possessions.
This is why we were originally founded as a republic, and not suppose to be one large homogeneous democracy.
We had the NeoCon elite repugnicans try to hijack, co-opt and mislead the TeaParty with some sucess.
Now we are seeing the globalist demoncrats trying to hijack, co-opt and misdirect the #Occupy movement.
Eventually folks will figure out that both obstructors have the same high command.
And that at it's very most elemental analysis, the T''s and Occupyers represent the identical zeitgeist.
A deep, fundamental, tired dispair, anger, abandonment and disassociation with the percieved leadership. A sense that nothing whatsoever is working anymore.
Eventually folks aren't going to figure out shit. They never do. They're not supposed to.
Somewhere in afghanistan one wedding party breathes a sigh of relief, while another trembles in fear.
Missing Soviet subs...pfft.
Could it be "Anonymous", or is this way out of their league?
NSA spying on the CIA
The parts for the drones are probably made in ChIndia and the "virus" is hardcoded into the hardware. That is why it "mysteriously" keeps coming back.
Woo! Another benefit of "outsourcing". And Keynesian too, since it's always reappearing/breaking, this is creating a 'stimulus' to fix it over and over again. Oops, I /sarc'd all over myself.
Props. This idea is so fucked up you are probably right. I hope *somebody* at Creech is tearing into the hardware on a Reaper and sucking out code on every chip on the board to look at line-by-line. I don't think this is Anonomous or any kid US hacker - possible, but doubtful. But stickin' the code in overseas where the chips are made makes MUCH more sense.
There have been articles in periodicals like Wired as well as in stories written by folks like Richard Clarke wherein the inclusion of deep destructive code has been included in chips, etc., manufactured in China, etc., and sourced into US weapons systems, just as US weapons sytems sold to foreign entities have similar back door kill mechanisms contained therein.
That such has been accomplished has actually been a matter of public record for some time.
Senate to China: Revalue thy currency or else.
China to Senate: go ahead round eye...make our day.
I kinda doubt Iran has the potential and capability to pull this off, Israel on the other hand has been caught red handed spying on it's 'Ally' too many times to count
Iran borders Russia & is allied with allied with China.
Plenty of professional hacking help from both can be found, if Iran needs it.
Yup. Stuxnet comes to mind. One morning when a hijacked drone drops a few bunker busters on Bushehr and Iran blames the US it won't be so 'benign'.
Anonymous has never made a virus to my knowledge. Ever.
The virus btw is fairly nasty and the information provided is semi correct.
Whatever they claim what the virus is, it isn't a keylogger. It's a worm that rewrites GE/General Dynamics chips that handle power control systems. Those powers systems can be found is everything from your fridge to GE nuclear power plants.
See where this is going yet?
Good to see you're still here CPL. Don't know you, but sometimes I worry about you.
Jews.
funny man, they are the masters of drone warefare... whose interests do you think these drones are serving? on the contrary, they are shitting themselves in isreal right now. no drones and they are fooked.
Israel is very susceptible, but then again look at all the US high-tech weaponry sold to them.
They have everything America has.
yup, and without high tech, they are seriously out numbered... and seeing as the zionists have spent the last 1000+ pissing off everyone around them, they will be in deep shit if and when their weapons can no longer shield them from the consequences of their bad acts.
Israelis or Zionists: political entity
Jews: one of the world's oldest religions.
Not the same thing, although that's what they would have you believe.
see:
http://www.nkusa.org/
"Jews" are also a tribal entity.
There's a big difference between the Ashkanazi flavor of the tribe and the Sephardic flavor. They're not really the same tribes.
Then there's the Africans.
for internet psy-ops? Why not go back to ...well ...I'll leave the choice to you...
You mean Clinton?
Slowest beginning to a WW ... ever. A virus, that's it. Come on now more can be done.
There is no such thing as a "benign" software virus, and especially not a persistent one.
I have a sexually transmitted disease that seems to be rather persistent. But 4 out of 5 female doctors agree its 'benign'......as long as I don't have sex with them. Time to poll the male doctors. < /sarc >
ditto - but I have some of them - 4/5 doesn't have an latex alergy. The 5th can handle polyurethane :-)
Average Janes r on "self esteem trip" and therefore irrelevant
Women are constantly inventing things to keep them selves relevant and keep their feminist ponzi going, why don't we just go back to the times when a woman was supposed to be a good wife and good mother and not a slut running after the next fill and a time where having multiple lovers was considered a bad thing and not a badge of honor like now
Why have it just one way or other? Sluts for me, wife for you. Happy ending, at least for me.
I think azzanoth has a hard time dating women.
"Sluts! Thats it! And feminism too! That is the cause of all my problems."
Sexually independent and empowered women really interest me.
Wanna get laid? Dumpster dive with the Food Not Bombs chics.
The biggest misogynists I've ever met have been gay guys.
Not sayin, just sayin.
I am not gay!
Not that there is anything wrong with it.
Er...now how many dicks do you have to suck to be considered gay!
Oops! You were talking about azannon....my bad!
Let us move on....forget this whole conversation.
BD are these the misogynist gay guys of whom you speak? I found this in urban dictionary under the word 'yar'
"6. Yar
Word used by homosexual pirates to describe a wealth of feelings. Also can mean yes.
Yarr me hearty, bend over so i can plunder ye booty!
Or
Are you sure we're sailing in the right direction? well? yar or nar?"
In these troubled times one can not have too much information.
That's yar vs. argh...right? Just checking.
.
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I thought "argh" meant "let me think about it".
First gay pirate, "Do you live around here?"
Second gay pirate, "Argh."
Let me take you to the gaybar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulPgWVC08KI
I have a sexually transmittable disease, its called desire, and its infectious at the touch of a button, at the slightest impression of written word. Its acts sometimes like forest fire as its human expression at its sublime best. I just hope that in my own way I try to fan the forest fire of desire like all lovers of life do. Its benign like wine and its a swine if you become addicted to it. So beware of excessive use. Apart from that, it invades all humans who have man's greatest sexual tool, a brain, like adrenil coaxes the valiant on battle field. I'll poll the female nurses of male fantasies to enquire if our desires are comparable to theirs. Something tells me that Venus and Mars are two different planets.
slow start but things will pick up pace; israel will retaliate. 1937 here we come
Go Iran!
Whatever. But I have to say thank God. Drones are inherently wrong. Not good for ANYBODY. Perhaps it was divine intervention.
Add a little armor, some more weapons, and some stabilizing thrusters, and we're talking Terminator.
Fuck Iran... go Kurds!!
Yeah - and fuck US too - fuck all empires and all centralized power forever. Amen!!!
Eric Cartman: Fuck fuckety fuck-fuck-fuck
There is an Emperor ot there - Ratzinger :-P
We all gonna burn in hell ....
the best of the best
Creech or Screetch like dustin diamond...lol
It's not a virus, it's Google!
Sheesh! ... that's not a bug, that's a feature ... it's a search engine ... Pratt and Whitney based search engine ...
hmm ... maybe it's related to Spybot Seach and Destroy v2.05 ...
Newsreel announcer: Crisis for humankind. Fleet officials admit they underestimated the Iranids' defensive capability.
[switch over to the Federal council]
Newsreel announcer: Accepting responsibility for Klendathu, Sky Marshal Dienes resigns. His successor, Sky Marshal Tehat Maru, outlines her new strategy.
Sky Marshal Tehat Meru: To fight the bug, we must understand the bug. We can ill afford another Klendathu.
Newsreel announcer: Would you like to know more?
Colossus: This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
Ya know that isnt a bad idea if machineboy keeps his promises.
Why did you think it was Machineboy rather than ET? There are some that believe that ET is/will take over. Personally, I'm agnostic on this until I get more information.
Nice quote from Collossus! =]
Kill the Borg
Would you like to know more?
You have to ask, why would they publically admit to it?
Harbourcity
Because we will be seeing an embarassing amount of drone strikes on US troops and componds.
Because we will be seeing an embarrassing amount of drone strikes on US public protests..
fixed for you.. Convenient to blame it on a buggy "malfunctioning" drone right?
Trying to draw out the responsible party....which means they have no clue where it came from. Krugman was right!!! It's aliens!
Clearly bullish
at the very least.. a good target for blame... like the winter storms..
Coming to a militarized police force near you.
Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement
Followed by "Oops! So sorry!"
Go long rifels.. Be fun to try to shoot those down.
Not so fun when they shoot back.
The Hellfire Missles of the drones achieve supersonic speeds.
They are used to destroy tanks.
Their speed is like 950 mph.
They will fuck you up, an AK or AR won't stop them -- I'm pretty sure of that.
You might be able to take them out with a radar aimed minigun. Not that the Empire is likely to let you have one.
If Iran really wants to get even for Stuxnet, they should hack into the robot system that is running Wall Street. Imagine the chaos that would cause.
+1 Green. Shutting down the HFT robots for 5 seconds would cause another system wide flash crash.
That comes October 10 - Anon OP;NYSErase I believe - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=nyse+erase+october+10+annonymous&oq=nyse+erase+october+10+annonymous&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=547l13452l0l13561l32l32l0l24l0l0l156l641l1.4l5l0&biw=1013&bih=577&cad=cbv&sei=IFePTtCLC-HL0QHb8fAq#hl=en&sa=X&ei=IFePToaXFMHg0QGilokO&ved=0CCQQvwUoAQ&q=nyse+erase+october+10+anonymous&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=839ace9d4ffe5eba&biw=1013&bih=577
How do you know they haven't already? Maybe Blankfein isn't a Jewboy after all.
Maybe the corporation who built the drones has put in a hardwired logger to monitor useage. A blackmail trap for Our Fearless Leaders, or just to satisfy their legal departments.
Are you sure you're not confusing drones with the Hacker Hellstorm? Holy shit! It's the Canadians! I broke the case!
skynet became self infected on ......
That's what happens when you don't wear protection. All those key 'strokes' what did they think was going to happen?
...self aware.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/04/celebrate_skynet_becomes...
The secret government committee that executes U.S. citizens uses drones with a virus. #EpicFailOfEverythingThatIsRight
Plausible deniability, FTW!
or implausable undeniability.
Someone forgot to turn on ad-blocker when searching for porn.
Gonna be an accident soon with all the porn ads popping up and covering the screen when they are trying to fly the drones.
Probably some 10 year old Chinese kid fooling around with his new computer!
I knew there was something fishy with my iPhone 4S.
Gulf of Tonkin?...............
I love the face that *we* are using Windows for mission critical military systems.
stupid stupid stupid.
When does Bill Gates go on trial for all the damage his shitty software has done over the years.
Yeah, it's Bill Gates' fault that 65% of the knobs in this country can't be bothered to patch their PCs and not click 'YES!' to every single popup they get on porn sites.
Virus infections are more likely to be the result of lazy and gullible people than system flaws. The biggest security flaw in Windows is the fucking moron sitting at the keyboard.
It's Gates fault that his company uses the public as a beta test lab.
I shouldn't have to rebuild my car every time I want to drive it either.
Find me any modern OS that isn't in a perpetual state of development and re-design.
Correct. It's an industry-wide failure.
Gotta luv it though, how they're always the smart guys. It's the users who are stupid! What an epic scam.
OK... Hm... How about Linux, OSX, BSD, AIX, Solaris... Oh, there are many many more.... IOS definitely is in constant development, but not on the kernal side... It is laughable that someone will "hack" into any hardened unix systems. If it happens, than either someone gave away some passwords, or the system admin needs to be put on an extended vacation...
In short, Not all operating systems are junk... Just the ones you use...
In the beginning was the command line...
I thought is was the Hex-editor...
punch card, bitches..
...and 150 bps acoustic coupler modems, operators that refused to run your batches 'till 4am....
Yup, used to be that DoD used these systems for the inherent security. More recently they have gone to Windows based systems, with predictable results. Designed to fail??
FreeBSD :-P
it's not a fault, it's a feature.
it's how the game is played, more important to release the software first, than it is for it to be fairly solid.
if you don't do that you lose market share.
and no one is forcing you to use the half assed software, it's your right as a consumer to choose.
Except you only know just how half-assed it is once you've bought & paid for it.
I can tell you are another satisfied Windows user!!! Dont worry.. I hear Windows 8 will solve ALL of these problems and more... Trust me!! :)
I quit at W2K ... ( due to an crappy uninstaller from an wellknown AV expert ).
I had a couple of other partitions - mounted the W2K shit on /garbage1
I'll be back to WinSchrott - on Windows 13 or 14 :-P Any S&M admin who likes to pimper da shit native ? :-P
There are no warranties, express or implied. And you don't own shit. You're only licensing it. And at a princely sum at that. Who's stupid in this intercourse? Who's bent over? Who's laughing?
Got root?
MAC's are just as easy to break into. In fact I think the MAC/ Safari is almost always the first to fall at pwn2own
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/safarimacbook-first-to-fall-at-pwn2ow...
Now if you had said to use a Linux distro like Ubuntu, then I would agree
Maybe Obama shouldn't have had the Pentagon outsource the programming for predator drone control systems to India to save a buck or two.
please provide a link to evidence of that.
that the predator programming was outsourced to india, and that it was obama's decision.
i don't know for a fact that you're wrong, but it would surprise me if it were true.
I haven't looked, but my guess would be a contractor in Israel.
Ohhh please.. Israel is our best friend.. and the eternal victim.. Just ask the U.S. Congress