I still disagree. 'Mail files' could be anything. Local mail clients on those laptops they carry on the ISS. It sounds like they have a local LAN which is not any type of control system. Most likely the ISS is run by some RTOS. Its typical in aircraft and ships and power plants to have a unsecure network for things like workstations and completely separate and often incompatible network for control systems. All the mail servers could crash and every laptop infected, but the ISS control systems would be fine.
Yes, we all know they use Windows on their workstations and it was assumed they had a file/mail server too. Why wouldn't they?
You can use differing definitions for "what the ISS runs" but a mail server is not a control server and its disingenuous to keep insisting it is. Its purposeful misdirection like this that leads Joe Sixpack into thinking the spaceships get viruses a la Independence Day and hacker kiddies can whistle a virus that'll send the ISS crashing into the Earth.
Yes, we all know they use Windows on their workstations and it was assumed they had a file/mail server too. Why wouldn't they?
You can use differing definitions for "what the ISS runs" but a mail server is not a control server and its disingenuous to keep insisting it is. Its purposeful misdirection like this that leads Joe Sixpack into thinking the spaceships get viruses a la Independence Day and hacker kiddies can whistle a virus that'll send the ISS crashing into the Earth.