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Trust is good, control is better
The UK is suspecting that the US government might have built a secret abort button into the Joint Strike Fighter, the could allow it to disable the billion dollar gadgets at will.
The scenario would look something like this: if the UK decides to defend the Falkland Islands and Bush disagrees, all he has to do is hack into the jets and they'll drop from the sky likes dead birds.
The solution would be quite simple: show all the blueprints and software code. Show that you have nothing to hide.
If the US refuses to cooperate, the Eurofighter is still a plausible alternative.
Too easy to hack?
Tags: joint strike fighter, open source, eurofighter
The headline, by the way, is a quote from Joseph Stalin, ranking second on the world list of known mass murderers. Even villains can make wise remarks.
March 16, 2006 at 09:20 PM | Permalink
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It was NOT Stalin but the great LENIN whom we attribute the above quote to.
Posted-by: People's contoller | 30 Jan 2007 15:30:19
RE: People's controller: Thank you for clearing that up. I'm pretty sure that Stalin said it as well, but I guess that he was inspired by the guy who invented the Gulag camps and caused hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to die from starvation... is that why he was great?
Posted-by: SV Sleuth | 30 Jan 2007 20:37:17
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