US military still SHAckled to outdated DoD PKI infrastructure (Netcraft)

Posted Jan 12, 2016 11:37 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: US military still SHAckled to outdated DoD PKI infrastructure (Netcraft) by smoogen
Parent article: US military still SHAckled to outdated DoD PKI infrastructure (Netcraft)

> Actually what will happen is that "updated" versions of Mozilla will not be allowed to be installed on .mil computers. Large organizations can't just turn off/change infrastructure as quickly as various groups somehow think they can.

If your job is "security" and your system is using "smoke and mirrors" security, then surely upgrading has a very high priority? Sure, an oil-tanker can't turn on a dime, but if you're the Torrey Canyon you shouldn't have gotten in to that situation in the first place! (The wikipedia article isn't that informative, but they knew the ship was going to wreck long before it actually did).

Cheers,
Wol