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Re: Quartz article: reinstating celestial...
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2015 Oct 23, 19:09 +0000
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2015 Oct 23, 19:09 +0000
Sorry, it was Bob Gothe and not David Pike that brought up the issue of air-gapping.
Lu
From: Bob Goethe <NoReply_Goethe@fer3.com>
To: luabel@ymail.com
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:32 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Quartz article: reinstating celestial...
>>For that reason I believe there is no reasonable scenario where all electronics ...are suddenly inoperative but the ship is otherwise functional.<<Fair enough. And if their navigational computers are indeed air-gapped, I agree with you.A car dealership to which I provide IT support had one PC that got a virus last year. The virus was designed to actively search out network connections and infect any machines it found. Of course, it found the main server for the dealership in no time flat...which made for a long night for me, trying to get them functional for 8 AM the next day.Bob
