http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/its....uh....xp, yeah...that's it!]]>May 1st 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
That's because there are no chairs around...]]>May 2nd 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Good spot that man.]]>May 3rd 2009 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Ballmer: "Uh... How about ME?"]]>May 2nd 2009 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Back in the god old days it was simple:

Person A: "FIRST!!!11!!!1"
Person B: Insert witty sarcastic comment becoming highly ranked here

.........*Sigh*


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God old days? What the duck?]]>May 1st 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Just watch, its going to be up on the torrents in a week.]]>May 2nd 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 3rd 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Any script or application can read/write ports below 1024 to do anything w/out, again, 'root' access. Who needs the speed of Interprocess Communication sockets when you have DDE and COM compontents that suck even more memory, open even more security holes. Why why why? When will they get it?

!!! Its about the software stupid !!!]]>May 1st 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
but back to the linux issue - it seems that the air force goes with an operating system that is commercially supported for the purposes of reliability, and obviously in widespread, standardized use. Why not a commercially supported, secure linux distribution - Suse or RedHat?]]>May 2nd 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
BTW, where are all these UNIX OS X users anyways?

FAIL]]>May 2nd 2009 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
You're a developer in the same way that I'm the Pope.

And since I was never a member of the Nazi party that means I'm not.]]>May 2nd 2009 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
I don't why I would even try to argue with you since you are probably 12 or 13, but someone has to say it. you're an idiot.

The military has no business using a mainstream OS. Maybe I've just grownup on too many 80s movies with Unix mainframes. 85% secure is not secure.

The more proprietary their OS and build, the harder it is for Russian and Chinese hackers to interfere and disrupt things. I've used windows most of my life, not because it's secure, it's cheaper and more convenient.

]]>May 2nd 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
OSX has consistently had a pretty crappy exploit record compared to Vista, and can't even properly randomize libraries (Which is why it went down first in the pwn2own contest)

And if you knew *anything* about the structure of NT, you'd know that it as at least 'as good' as a modern UNIX base. The foundation of the OS is not a problem for anything these days. The problems lie in three things: The users, the default security setup (Which is NOT a problem for businesses and military, because they don't let their users run as admin), and applications.]]>May 2nd 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Too bad social engineering is the biggest problem they face these days, something every OS is susceptible to.]]>May 3rd 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/]]>May 3rd 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
1) they say Mac users can't shut up, but it was actually the troll-bait original comment that started this thread, not a fanboy, and the original troll-bait was the usual straw-man crap ("hey, if I keep implying that all Apple fans are fanboys who can't shut up, then the dills in the Engadget comments section will eventually believe that all Apple fans are fanboys who can't shut up" ... they've been doing that for more than six months and SURPRISE all the dills in here now believe this piece of received wisdom).

2) Just because one person takes the troll-bait and responds, does not make all Apple users arrogant. How would you like to be judged by the absolute worst of the MS trolls or the linux fanboys?

If you want to challenge Steveorevo's comment and disparage them, that's fine - the problem is you asserting that Steveorevo somehow speaks for all Apple fans, and attacking all of us on the basis of one person's comment alone.

I am not arrogant because of what Steveorevo says, in the same way that you are not an uninformed troll just because of what some random MS fanboy says.]]>May 4th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
Mr Balmer looks like he is in a court-martial..... ]]>May 1st 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
For added security it also makes use of write only memory. Write Once Read Never (WORN) memory is the ultimate in security.]]>May 1st 2009 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 2nd 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/
The upshot is that now, as their PCs are more consistently configured, they don't have to spend weeks testing security/OS updates before deployment. They can distribute them within a few days.]]>May 1st 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/But I think in reality is that it comes down use what is old because all the flaws are known. Let's say they get Win7, instead of XP. Ok that is all nice, but what are the flaws? No one knows yet.]]>May 1st 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/Stick to 8.10 for a while. Maybe wait for 9.04

If you're really impatient, an OS X capable machine, while expensive, may be a good idea.]]>May 1st 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/air-force-now-using-super-secure-version-of-windows-xp/May 1st 2009 6:58PM