Comment Re:When you put something in a locked box (Score 1) 295
When you try to protect a secret by putting in in a locked box, do you put it in a steel box with a good combination lock? Or do you put it in a cheap transparent plastic box with a lock that can be picked by a safety pin and hundreds of holes and little doors that can be opened even more easily?
The answer really depends on what kind of other security measures you're placing on the box, and how accessible it is. If the transparent plastic box with a lock that can be picked with a safety pin is floating on a rock island in the middle of the caldera of an active volcano...
It isn't. Somebody obviously got in, either by socially engineering a soldier or by being a double agent.
The military networks are most certainly hardened against intrusion.
Hardened? Is this about placing the aforementioned plastic box into a steel vault?
With proper security measures installed, and with decent firewalls and traffic monitoring on both the outbound and the inbound, and with intelligent account restrictions in place,
... including prohibiting external storage devices,
... then Windows can be made just as secure as any other OS.