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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

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433 points zdw | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.553s | 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. 1970-01-01 ◴[21 Oct 25 18:02 UTC] No.45659242[source]▶
Wasn't it literally designed for that specific task? As a robust C&C system during nuclear war? The fact that we're doing it wrong doesn't mean we need to pull the plug on everything. How else do you survive WWIII?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5432117

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2. groby_b ◴[21 Oct 25 18:57 UTC] No.45660032[source]▶
You don't. Internet or not.
3. 1718627440 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:46 UTC] No.45662133[source]▶
That only works, if the nodes still operate just fine, without the Internet.