[Glastonbury] [Fsfe-uk] Channel 4 News: Windows warfare (fwd)

[Martin Wheeler]

WMD = Windows for Mass Destruction?

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:23:33 +0100
From: Paul Mobbs <mobbsey at gn.apc.org>
To: fsfe-uk at gnu.org
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Channel 4 News: Windows warfare

Windows warfare

Published: 09-Oct-2004  By: Julian Rush


It runs most of our office and domestic computers - but should it be trusted
with matters of life and death?

The Ministry of Defence has chosen the Windows operating system for the
war-fighting computers of the Royal Navy's latest destroyers.

But a combat-systems expert from the company designing the technology says
`Windows 2000' is neither reliable nor secure enough for the job.

  . . . .

http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_2/09_windows.html

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