On Friday 23 November 2007 13:54, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > BBC's Newsnight reports: > > "Newsnight has discovered that until the early days of the Blair government > the RAF's nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key." > > And later: > "The Bomb is actually armed by inserting a bicycle lock key into the arming > switch and turning it through 90 degrees. There is no code which needs to > be entered or dual key system to prevent a rogue individual from arming the > Bomb." > > More at > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7097101.stm
Wonder if this means they will have to start confiscating BIC pens at the guard gates to military compounds? :-P cheers, --dr -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques Tokyo, Japan November 29/30 - 2007 http://pacsec.jp pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp >> Hi! I'm your friendly neighbourhood signature virus. >> Copy me to your signature file and help me spread! _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
