26 May
2016
26 May
'16
6:13 p.m.
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Subject: Re: vintage computers in active use
On 5/26/2016 10:22 AM, dwight wrote:
not
It is interesting that the military may not be
able to use W10.
I doubt it can meet tempest requirements without major changes.
Dwight
There is a lot of phone home crap in windows. A friend who otherwise had
worried about such things is starting to formulate a
firewall
(reverse) to put in for customers to block outbound communications with
the
mother ship. I suspect they were there before, but
they are there a lot
in W10.
He specifically is going to get with port number blocking outbound, and
some
inbound crap, but still will hopefully preserve the
windows updates.
There
seems to be an effort to get this going he is working
with.
But it generally uses 443 and 80 so it can get through firewalls. It also
tends to use "normal" Microsoft server addresses. It is also often on port
443. There is wasting my time, and wasting my time.
On the topic of the military, they were doing things
to thermally record
the
floppies as well so they could not be altered between
the source and
destinations. They never came up with a newer technology they liked to
replace that capability on either tapes or floppies.
They used 7 track tapes for Nike Ajax targeting data that could not be
erased
due to how they were recorded.
I worked with a sales rep with an early optical media vendor and the
Pentagon
brass went nuts over it, but the vendor's
technology was proprietary, and
they
didn't want to jump from one hard to deal with
tech to another.
The rep was a retired petty officer, and he said he about crapped when he
went
into the meeting with all generals and admirals and
the like.
Still had the averse reaction to brass from his old salt days.
thanks
Jim