In September 1997, a mistake, a computer gjymtoi the USS Yorktown (CG-48), a kryqëzor ahead of the Navy of the united states, by which he is to be forbidden. No hacker is great, but what we can do is what we call “the bug”.
While he was in training, training off the coast of Virginia, and a member of the crew put a zero on the basis of the data on the ships, causing the effect of the dominoes that brought down the entire system for the management of the computer .
Yorktown, in-class Ticonderoga, it was a “Boat smart”, the first with a control system which is advanced, based on Windows NT. The problem is born when the software attempted to perform the division by zero, an operation is out of the question, which brought down the Manager of the database on the remote.
The result? All of the machines connected to the network, they have stopped working, including the systems of propulsion. He remained “dead in the water for about three hours, which was great for a unit of a military operation.
According to several sources, the Yorktown had to be withdrawn on the basis of the naval Norfolk, but the Navy has denied it is always so, claim it kryqëzori was able to regain control of himself. The incident raised the criticism for the strong, for the use of Windows NT for other systems such as these to be significant in the ship with the experts, who prefer the reliability of the Unix system.
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