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Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
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On the stream you could very easily see his PIN code being put in, hopefully it's limited to that device!
Shit, I left my 2FA device at home!
"please provide fingerprint to verify"
Looks at glove
"Fuck"
Probably not, I'd imagine all the tablets have the same pin to make things easier.
Now all we need is physical access to one of those tablets and we're in!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/
(Though, of course, that's alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )
Of course a submarine's systems won't be connected to the internet, but using a Windows base with a "Custom Support Agreement" still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.
Further to this, there isn't a 'launch the nuclear weapons' application which controls things. Windows is used for the day to day admin - producing the paperwork required in any organisation - but the actual control systems, for the submarine, the weapons the reactor etc are not running off windows.