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US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux
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| 12 January 2012
| John Leyden
Posted on 01/12/2012 8:49:09 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:49:21 AM PST
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:50:33 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:51:15 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
My webserver is linux, nary a hickup. My desktop windows is always catching something.
You can argue I need better anti-virus, which is a truism. But the infections have been getting nastier and more sophisticated by quantum leaps. I just can’t continue to risk my business on Windows staying safe.
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:55:54 AM PST
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: ShadowAce
“a credential stealer”
As in: I’m not really controlling you from Teheran, see? my credentials say I’m really at Creech...
That kind of credential?
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posted on
01/12/2012 8:57:05 AM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1086 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: ShadowAce
Yeah, but if it weren’t for Windows (and Stuxnet), Iran might have a nuke by now....
To: ShadowAce
Secrets, we don't need no stinking secrets.
Why don't we just go ahead and share the code while we're at it.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:12:10 AM PST
by
hamboy
(I use Linux since Red Hat 5.0 as multi-boot with Windows NT... :-))
To: ShadowAce
How about hiring some competant programmers to make sure you dont get infected...
If Linux is the answer then the question must be “How much more expensive can we make this?”
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:14:45 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
To: ShadowAce
Who is in charge of Air Force security?..
REally they must be SLAPPED HARD.. hazed.. maybe demoted..
Somebody is an idiot.. maybe several people..
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:18:07 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Mr. K
“How about hiring some competant programmers to make sure you dont get infected...
If Linux is the answer then the question must be How much more expensive can we make this?”
I’m sorry, but are you saying that Linux is *more* expensive than Linux? If so, exactly which planet are you from?
BFT is also Linux based, btw, as are a lot of other systems.
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:28:11 AM PST
by
cizinec
("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
To: cizinec; Mr. K
“Im sorry, but are you saying that Linux is *more* expensive than Linux?”
Good grief. I mean Linux more expensive than Windows.
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:30:20 AM PST
by
cizinec
("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
To: Mannaggia l'America
I bet even if Iran would use Unix or Unix-like OS still there's no guarantee. Any system have backdoor exploits and flaws put there intentionally. Even then when human efforts fail the finger of G-d excels!
You can read
click here the article through the bottom of the page about
"The Finger of G-d!"
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:51:53 AM PST
by
hamboy
(I use Linux since Red Hat 5.0 as dual-boot with Windows NT... :-))
To: ShadowAce
—...the Air Force dismissed the electronic nasty as a nuisance and said it posed no threat to the operation of Reaper drones...—
Nasty nuisance: It flashed an image on the remote pilot’s console every three minutes advertizing a hot local singles site. But since it used the GPS of the drone to locate them, all the hot singles were wearing burkas.
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posted on
01/12/2012 9:56:55 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
I've been using Linux, mostly as my only OS, since 1993 and I too have not had the problems.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:07:07 AM PST
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: ShadowAce
US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux Well Duh ! Who was the jackwad who wrote the RFP
bid Specifications for classified drones ?
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:17:49 AM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: pyx
I've been using Linux, mostly as my only OS, since 1993 and I too have not had the problems.Did you say you were using Linux since '93? Which distro?
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:39:51 AM PST
by
hamboy
(I tried Slackware back in '91 but couldn't scale the X Window to fullscreen.)
To: ShadowAce
The problem with Windows security is that every script-kiddie on the planet has Windows on his desk. Windows is a victim of its own popularity.
Often the folks who know Linux have too much invested in their knowledge/profession to go risking it through hacking.
Also, SeLinux was developed by the same type of folks that put a man on the moon. Can't go wrong there!
As always, there are exceptions.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:50:37 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: ShadowAce
You’d think the whole Blue Screen of Death thing would have made Windows a shoe-in!
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posted on
01/12/2012 11:17:42 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: hamboy
Did you say you were using Linux since '93? Which distro?
Yes. Originally, we (end users) didn't use an actual distribution. We either compiled or downloaded bootable versions of the kernel and some accessory helper application programs, libraries and system/helper files.
I think the very first actual distribution I used was from Yggdrisil (sp). Then I changed to other distros such as Slackware, Red Hat and Debian (long before the days of Lenny and SID :) ). From there, I've tried various hybrids such as, custom, Studio64 Linux, Arch Linux and Ubuntu.
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posted on
01/12/2012 11:21:07 AM PST
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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