Military Computer Secrets
-------------------------
by Suicidal

In recent issues I have been seeing a lot of letters dealing with military
computers. So I figured I'd better get the word out about the United States
Marine Corps and United States Navy computers. We mainly use two programs on
the aviation side of the services to log and record everything we do. Our
desktop platform is WINNT. That speaks for itself. For the actual upkeep of
logs and records for the jets, we use a program called NALCOMIS. It was also
written by Microsoft back in the stone age. It has no graphics whatsoever and
doesn't even support a mouse. Yeah ... when the government finds something they
like, they stick to it. All our computer systems are run and kept up by a shop
in the squadron called Maintenance Admin. They basically sit in the air
conditioning all day and play solitaire while the computer systems run like
shit. They go to a two week school and learn how to use a mouse before being
assigned to a squadron. So this basically means... unsecured systems.

Now everyone is saying, who the fuck cares. Well, with NALCOMIS you can do
everything from order a part to making the government believe that a jet has
nothing in it. Everything is logged from part serial numbers to flight hours.
You could change the flight hours and then the jet would be downed (can't fly
anymore) because it is above the restricted time. Or you could order a stick
grip and throw that baby in your car and cruise in style with an FI A-18 stick
grip as a gear shifter. They love to leave the sysadmin handle in the system
with the password of, that's it, sysadmin. Also, most of the morons who have
accounts (everyone who works in the squadron) have passwords like ppppppO or
eeeeee4. The only off workstation calling that is done in NALCOMIS is when our
computers are talking to supply over the base LAN. But if a way is found onto
the base LAN then the "guest" could get into any of the squadron's NALCOMIS
systems.