I remember reading an interesting book by a military man which basically said that a lot of things that save money are hopelessly inappropriate for the military. For example, if you want to save money, you should build only one type of tank, and one plane, so you can spread the costs over as many units as possible. This is bad militarily, because you always want to be able to surprise the opposition, which is a great deal easier if you use different equipment, with different strengths and weaknesses.
The other important principle is simplicity and reliability. You need to always be able to rely on your equipment in battle. Windows is obviously highly inappropriate in this case. Unix is enormously simpler in design than Windows, so it's a far superior foundation for any military system.
The people who decided the military should switch to Windows forgot these very important lessons. And they didn't even save any money, with the Linux alternative growing strength.
Sorry, folks.
(Personally, I would NEVER in a million years use Windows to run my business, let alone the military. Idiots).
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Terrorists don't need to have expensive weapons......just as they used or own planes to fly into the WTC.....so they'll use or own nuclear warheads to destroy some other place.
Like taking a man's fist and using it to smash into his own face.
Yes, and the Nimda-infected machines advertise themselves (by attempting to infect other web servers, producing telltale log entries containing the IP address of the compromised machine).
ACERT is a good place to look if you have concerns about computers.