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From: tedrick@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Patriots (complicated software)
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Date: 13 Apr 91 11:36:39 GMT
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From: tedrick@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)


My understanding is that the Patriot system relies on some complicated
software.

Since one of my hobbies is finding weird things to do that can exploit
weaknesses in flawed programs (doing unexpected things that a sane
programmer wouldn't likely think of, often uncovers radical flaws in
either the coding, or algorithms involved :-), I started wondering what
weird things could be done with missiles, that might cause the Patriot
system software to screwup.

In general, I wonder what weird things could be done with weapons
systems to cause enemy software screwups.  This kind of thing might
even be decisive in some future war. A new kind of unconventional
warfare perhaps :-)

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