“While it is true that Macs are revered in music, movie production and other arts communities, many people do not know that Apple also has a long and active tradition in defense and security that goes back at least to 1989,” Barbara Mende reports for MacDirectory.
“Back then, Apple won a contract to supply a minimum of 10,000 Macintosh IIx’s configured for Unix plus a NASA contract for 2,500 Macs for the Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Mende reports.
While Apple doesn’t publicize it as widely as it does its connection with Bono, Apple products have figured prominently in protecting our homeland in many key U.S security institutions:
• EchoStorm: Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Information Services (ISRIS)
• Multiple Advanced Computers for Hypersonics (MACH5)
• Modeling asteroids for NASA
• United States Army Website
• The Texas Air National Guard
Read more in the full article here.
Yep, any where in the government where they do real work and not rely on porn to get through the day
Yep, any where in the government where they do real work and not rely on porn to get through the day
Barbara Mende and Bono are stuck in the 80’s and 90”s.
Barbara Mende and Bono are stuck in the 80’s and 90”s.
MDN, what’s with your advertisers? The “free cursors” ad that is currently on top of this page is a windows exclusive product. I guess they don’t pay a whole lot of attention to who the audience is…
MDN, what’s with your advertisers? The “free cursors” ad that is currently on top of this page is a windows exclusive product. I guess they don’t pay a whole lot of attention to who the audience is…
Chloe at CTU prefers Macs.
Chloe at CTU prefers Macs.
Remember the ads with the Macs being guarded by tanks when they started using the PowerPC chips that were being blocked from being sold to our enemy. I think Russia and China can get them now!
Later we discovered the the military was using the Macs as a firewall to protect the thousands of vulnerable Microsoft Windows PCs in their network. I assume that they are still infested with those Windows PCs still. Should be a ton of iPads in there by now. Got to have something the next time the Windows PCs are down!
Remember the ads with the Macs being guarded by tanks when they started using the PowerPC chips that were being blocked from being sold to our enemy. I think Russia and China can get them now!
Later we discovered the the military was using the Macs as a firewall to protect the thousands of vulnerable Microsoft Windows PCs in their network. I assume that they are still infested with those Windows PCs still. Should be a ton of iPads in there by now. Got to have something the next time the Windows PCs are down!
*United States Army Website
That site was running in windows about 8 or 9 years ago but was changed to Mac after a hacker penetrated the Army web site.
*United States Army Website
That site was running in windows about 8 or 9 years ago but was changed to Mac after a hacker penetrated the Army web site.
@Jersey
” Should be a ton of iPads in there by now. “
If that’s a metric ton, it would mean approximately 1500 units. I think they have quite a lot more
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@Jersey
” Should be a ton of iPads in there by now. “
If that’s a metric ton, it would mean approximately 1500 units. I think they have quite a lot more
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… Mac OS X has ZERO virus
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How long? Since 1999!
2010 = $301 no brainer
2011 = $401 period!
… Bet on it!
… Mac OS X has ZERO virus
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How long? Since 1999!
2010 = $301 no brainer
2011 = $401 period!
… Bet on it!
J_T’s comments remind me of the time our government agency was brought down by the Sasser Virus. Some of our firewalls were running Windows, others Solaris. The former obviously were knocked out. So were our e-mail servers (Exchange). And our anti-virus update servers. We were essentially out of business for two days as our Windows platforms had to be updated one by one. (Macs, Linux and Solaris were unaffected, but they could do only so much.)
Ironically, we were struck a few months after I publicly asked our new CIO if anyone had analyzed the risk of moving more and more of our information resources to Windows. He didn’t know. (It turned out no risk analysis had ever been done.) Of course, the experience changed nothing. By the time I left in ’08 procurement requests for Macs were being blocked.
I also recall hearing from the incoming CIO of the new Department of Homeland Security that they would be standardizing on … Windows! Most security analysts were, understandably, shocked by the decision. A few groups within DHS use something else, but the mainstream platform remains Windows.
J_T’s comments remind me of the time our government agency was brought down by the Sasser Virus. Some of our firewalls were running Windows, others Solaris. The former obviously were knocked out. So were our e-mail servers (Exchange). And our anti-virus update servers. We were essentially out of business for two days as our Windows platforms had to be updated one by one. (Macs, Linux and Solaris were unaffected, but they could do only so much.)
Ironically, we were struck a few months after I publicly asked our new CIO if anyone had analyzed the risk of moving more and more of our information resources to Windows. He didn’t know. (It turned out no risk analysis had ever been done.) Of course, the experience changed nothing. By the time I left in ’08 procurement requests for Macs were being blocked.
I also recall hearing from the incoming CIO of the new Department of Homeland Security that they would be standardizing on … Windows! Most security analysts were, understandably, shocked by the decision. A few groups within DHS use something else, but the mainstream platform remains Windows.
@Raymond in DC
And Obama was suppose to change?????? What??????
@Raymond in DC
And Obama was suppose to change?????? What??????
Money is changing hands of course
Money is changing hands of course
On a related note, Microsoft is proposing that sick PCs be banned from the internet:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/malware/microsoft-ban-sick-pcs-the-internet-945
“Software giant calls for a collective health policy to certify a PC’s health and restrict the Internet access of PCs infected with malware”
“Now Microsoft is arguing that the security community needs to develop a collective health policy to restrict sick PCs — those infected with malware — from connecting to the Internet.”
On a related note, Microsoft is proposing that sick PCs be banned from the internet:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/malware/microsoft-ban-sick-pcs-the-internet-945
“Software giant calls for a collective health policy to certify a PC’s health and restrict the Internet access of PCs infected with malware”
“Now Microsoft is arguing that the security community needs to develop a collective health policy to restrict sick PCs — those infected with malware — from connecting to the Internet.”
There were lots of Macs at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the starting in the mid to late 1980’s and extending into the early 1990’s. The prices on Macs were kept too high, which began to eat into their numbers. But the real hit was the Jack Garman crusade against Macs in the mid 1990s. Fortunately, Macs (particularly MacBook Pros) have made a substantial comeback at NASA since the early 2000s.