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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

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433 points zdw | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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tcoff91 ◴[21 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45658922[source]▶
Wasn't the internet literally created by the military for military comms? The decentralized routing was in part to ensure that comms could survive some areas being taken out by nuclear weapons.
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1. philipallstar ◴[21 Oct 25 19:38 UTC] No.45660633[source]▶
The very very earliest form of some of the protocols involved it were, yes. But not really now at all. That "internet" would not be worth using.