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My next-door neighbour, a middle-ranking officer on the UK’s Vanguard fleet of nuclear submarines, asked me to fix his laptop ready for the recent 3-month wargame off Florida. Naturally, the “fix” was as simple as identify trojan, format, re-install MS-Windows, install Avast, advise him not to run keygens he’d randomly downloaded off a torrent, and slip an Ubuntu live CD into the laptop bag in the hope it’d pique his interest.

As I returned it to him, I said “I turned WiFi and Bluetooth off by default. I assume you’d get in trouble if your stealth-sub got spotted by something as simple as your opponent searching for available networks.”

Apparently he’d never thought of that. And regaled me with stories of how long undersea voyages are just one huge wireless LAN party and movie fileswap meet. And asked me to turn WiFi and BT back on.

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