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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"No networked computers!" Colonial fleet high command standing orders

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago

Cylons hate this little trick.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

One of many reasons why I love BSG. As a retro-computing enthusiast, the idea that antique systems are naturally impervious to conventional digital attacks, just felt so validating.

Sure, our navigation system is based on a Commodore-64, but good luck getting it to divulge mission-critical information over bluetooth. Or any information for that matter.