Britain’s Largest Warship Uses Windows XP And It’s Totally Fine, Says Michael Fallon

huffingtonpost.co.uk ^ | June 27, 2017 | Graeme Demianyk

[pfflier]

The whole point is still how a system with Windows XP is used. If any system is operated isolated from the internet, wi-fi, bluetooth or other media interface software, then the vulnerability to hacking in nil.

The only way to pollute the system under those circumstances, is to introduce a virus using portable media devices.

[taildragger]

"I’d have thought the Brits would be using a Commodore 64 system."

Only if that was approved by the Labor Party as a Joint Venture with Lucas and it was a 6V Positive Ground System....;-)

Yes I am here until Tuesday and try the Veal. Seriously, why would you tell your adversaries what your software platform was unless this is a lie and you want throw them off and you are using "*#_*&_____" insert what ever in that blank, since IMHO it should be classified...

[Garth Tater]

That’s right. And XP is wide open to anyone with physical access to the hardware - no matter what their level of permissions are. Modern operating systems are not, or at least very much less so.