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Re: Computers anyone?

From Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Computers anyone?
Date 2016-03-10 13:44 -0800
Organization Wheeler&Wheeler
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
> This is F-22: Can't Fly Won't Die
> http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
>
> Pilots call high-maintenance aircraft "hangar queens."  Well, the F-22's
> a hangar empress. After three expensive decades in development, the
> plane meets fewer than one-third of its specified requirements.
>
> ...
>
> Anyway, an enemy wouldn't have to down a single F-22 to defeat it. Just
> strike the hi-tech maintenance sites, and it's game over. (In WWII, we
> didn't shoot down every Japanese Zero; we just sank their carriers.) The
> F-22 isn't going to operate off a dirt strip with a repair tent.

not only is there lots vulnerabilities associated with extreme
complexity of maintenance
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx

there is also vulnerabilities from loads of advanced electronic
counterfeit parts

Probe finds 'flood' of fake military parts from China in U.S. equipment
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/probe-finds-flood-of-fake-military-parts-from-china-in-u-s-equipment/
Flood of fake Chinese parts in US military gear - report
http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-defense-counterfeit-idUSL1E8GMMCV20120522
Fake Parts are Everywhere
http://www.defensetech.org/2012/05/22/fake-parts-are-everywhere/

there is also vulnerabilities where the advanced electronic parts aren't
counterfeit ... they are sourced and produced in china ... that US
military has to rely on.

Richard Clarke: All U.S. Electronics From China Could Be Infected
http://www.defensetech.org/2012/03/29/richard-clarke-all-u-s-electronics-from-china-could-be-infected/

and separate from the other cyberdumb issues.

military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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                Re: Computers anyone? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-10 01:55 -0700
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