Post-ID: thread-20091217174243-qdb-300971
Created-At: 2009-12-17T17:42:43Z
Board-Tags: general
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<Monotone> wtf is this shit? you're telling me I spent my entire military career physically attaching 25 year old encryption devices to my body and treating night vision equipment like it was the holy grail of sensitive technology
<Monotone> and an insurgent can basically just log on to a live feed from any US aircraft's FLIR?
<Monotone> face
<Monotone> meet palm
<Monotone> "fielded so fast that it was done with an unencrypted signal. It could be both intercepted (e.g. hacked into) and jammed"
<Monotone> WE NEED THIS NOW HERE'S A CHECK NO WE DON'T CARE THAT IT'S MISSING FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
<Monotone> thank fuckin christ we're not fighting the Chinese, those hacker units from C&C Generals would sell our entire fleet of aircraft on Ebay and bog down SIPRNET with penis-enlargement spam two weeks into the conflict