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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

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433 points zdw | 4 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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reenorap ◴[21 Oct 25 17:16 UTC] No.45658455[source]▶
There needs to be a law that all nuclear and nuclear-adjacent facilities have no connection to the Internet. The fact it's allowed is unbelievable.
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1. azalemeth ◴[21 Oct 25 17:47 UTC] No.45659008[source]▶
While we're at it "and not use Microsoft products". Literally every time a story like this surfaces...
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2. dimitrios1 ◴[21 Oct 25 18:09 UTC] No.45659365[source]▶
That's more of a form of survivorship bias. Microsoft continued to maintain its lockdown on government IT and infrastructure through the decades, over the alternatives.
3. Razengan ◴[21 Oct 25 19:24 UTC] No.45660443[source]▶
I don't think any Microsoft Surfaces were involved in this..
4. BeetleB ◴[21 Oct 25 19:36 UTC] No.45660614[source]▶
> While we're at it "and not use Microsoft products".

I'm not sure if Oracle would be better.