Re: [Fsfe-uk] Channel 4 News: Windows warfare... link

[Stuart Yeates]

Richard Smedley wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:25, Paul Mobbs wrote:
>
> > oops... forgot to pasdte the link,
> >
> > http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_2/09_windows.html
>
>
> The best bit is at the end of the article:
>
> ``If it all works, there are plans to use Windows 
> for the command system on the submarines that carry 
> Britain's nuclear deterrent.''
>
> Anyone want to post a Knoppix disk up to Faslane ;-)
>
> More practically, does anyone know the Gerald Wilson
> who blew the whistle on them, or have any idea of 
> the contractors for whom he used to work? He should
> be the first point of contact for more information on
> the whole thing.

From the current comp.risks:

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:02:47 -0400
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <address@hidden>
Subject: Navy battle software unsafe

[Source: Article by Neil Mackay, Investigations Editor, *Sunday Herald*
(Scotland), 10 Oct 2004]

The Royal Navy's new, state-of-the-art destroyer has been fitted
with combat management software that can be hacked into, crashes
easily and is vulnerable to viruses, according to one of the
system's designers who was fired after raising his concerns.

Gerald Wilson, who has 25 years' experience designing naval software,
worked for Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) in a joint venture with Bae
Systems and the Italian company Finmeccanica on the combat system for
the Type 45 destroyer, which will rely on Microsoft Windows 2000.
System failure in action, he says, would leave the ship blind,
defenceless, and as good as sunk.

[end excerpt]

They appear to be at http://www.amsjv.com/

cheers
stuart