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[–] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

ATC computers and comms are old. Super old. They’re also critical systems. The effort that we put into security today is dwarfed by the effort they put into redundancy and resilience for critical systems back in the day. It was incredibly insecure, but it could work through a nuclear war.

One wire taking it down suggests that it’s new equipment or the redundancy has not been maintained. Or both.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Very poetic if we based the cyber requirements off the old cold war "survive a nuclear strike" requirements, then misapplied those new requirements to the old systems (à la can't run Windows Defender if the system doesn't use Windows) causing new infrastructure to be added that caused the whole system to fail.

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