[michael_vo]

I've been told by current military folks that they are forced to use outdated windows (the ones without security updates) on official military computers on base. So this is where they access emails, surf the web, and all of that. They had to use IE instead of the evergreen edge browser.

It's well known among the people who serve that it's a joke.

[xtracto]

Reminds me of Gary McKinnon, who "hacked" US military computers by using default passwords.... what difference does.it make to use newer OSes if ITops sucks?

[wrycoder]

Not just on base. I had a conversation with a three star general. He remarked that while our warships had separate software and hardware for systems and fire control, the rest of of the ship’s IT ran on Windows. Supposedly, there was no connection between the two, but LOL.

[TecoAndJix]

Why LOL? These are separate systems/networks. Even warships need boring admin things like email, internet, identity management, etc. Plus the systems that go on these ships are heavily customized not just straight out of the box.

Source: was IT on a destroyer