US nuclear security deals with 10 million 'significant' online attacks each day

[muffinmastah]

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;35252311]It's so that the President can authorise a missile launch from his laptop. It's just convenience really.[/QUOTE]

Doesn't he have that "nuclear football"?

[CapnScarlet2]

Bearing in mind that the internet was originally designed to network US Military installations, it's not at all surprising that they'd be connected. I'm sure the silos and launch computers aren't connected of course, but all the big datacentres are naturally connected.

Besides, it makes sense for them to use the internet - it's a worldwide, quick, adaptable communications network. By the same logic you could argue that they shouldn't use the phone network, because it's connected to everywhere. But thankfully in that case, reliable end-to-end encryption negates any problems.

[NoDachi]

[QUOTE=TestECull;35246068]Keep the secrets off the internet and it doesn't matter how much the hackers hack. They can't get to information that isn't connected to the internet in any way.[/QUOTE]

Well considering one of the original ideas for the internet was to develop it as a decentralised system so it could withstand surprise attack.