But seriously, it's necessary. I remember reading about the US having to rewrite some software for one of the big ships (carrier maybe) after their intelligence overheard the Russians talking about how they could shut down the ship at will, remotely.
inb4 the Russians were just trolling the US into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a completely unnecessary software rewrite.
> But seriously, it's necessary. I remember reading about the US having to rewrite some software for one of the big ships (carrier maybe) after their intelligence overheard the Russians talking about how they could shut down the ship at will, remotely.
inb4 the Russians were just trolling the US into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a completely unnecessary software rewrite.
This is why I think it is a very bad idea to integrate networking with the OS in military hardware.
They do not need OS level networking for communications. They would lose the ability to remote access the system, which would be a huge inconvenience, and costly.
But seriously, it's necessary. I remember reading about the US having to rewrite some software for one of the big ships (carrier maybe) after their intelligence overheard the Russians talking about how they could shut down the ship at will, remotely.
Who needs weapons if you can just hijack the enemys. As long as war-machines have accessible OSs then they can be turned against their owners.
One man with a laptop could stand against a battleship.