LOL: UK Nuclear Subs Equipped with Windows XP

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
May 15, 2017

“Attention all crew, please make sure you have not uncheck “automatic updates” on the Windows XP systems that run this nuclear sub. I can assure you, we are not going to depressurize and die horribly if we can connect and get the 2017 update package for Windows XP.”

Who would have thought that someone would install Windows on critical systems on a nuclear sub?

This is what happens when baby-boomer run your tech policy. Just like WannaCry itself (effectively created by the NSA) is what happens when you let boomers run your tech policy.

RT:

British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon insists he has “complete confidence” in the safety of Britain’s nuclear submarines, but refused to deny that they run on the Windows XP operating system that has been exploited in a major global cyberattack.

Since Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was walloped by the WannaCry ransomware, fears have arisen that the country’s military could also be susceptible because of its outdated computer systems.

Friday’s attack affected 48 NHS trusts, forcing doctors unable to access patient files to cancel operations, and ambulances to divert to hospitals where systems were not down.

The Guardian reported last year that the UK’s Trident nuclear program operates on a variant of Windows XP, which has been at the center of the global ransomware outbreak.

Speaking to BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Fallon was asked if Trident nuclear submarines still run on XP, which Microsoft has stopped supporting.

“We never comment on the different systems, obviously for reasons of security, that our submarines use,” Fallon explained. “Our vanguard submarines, I can absolutely assure you, are safe and operate in isolation when they are out on patrol and I have complete confidence in our nuclear deterrent,” he said.

That is so, so nuts.

I never would have actually imagined they are literally doing that.

And you know what: if the UK is doing it, all of NATO is almost certainly doing it too.

And these are the people trying to provoke a war with Russia?

Here’s two questions for you folks:

1. Do you think Russia has Windows XP installed in their nuclear subs?
2. Do you think Russia has exploits for Windows XP?

Those are questions I would think through long and hard before pushing this thing any further, NATO.

I don’t know what these boomers running things think, nor do I even want to know, but it is clear that they do not understand at all the kind of role cyber warfare is going to play in a third World War.

And if Windows is on nuclear subs, it’s obviously in other heavy equipment as well.

wew lads.