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Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking

posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the who'd-have-thought-this-would-ever-happen dept.

kaszz writes:

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the computers that control and monitor the aircraft isn't protected enough by on-board firewalls intended to protect avionics from hackers. These could be breached if flight control and entertainment systems use the same wiring and routers had they in turn, been connected to the on-board WiFi. The GAO report authors stated that the affected planes include the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the Airbus A350 and A380. All have advanced cockpits that are wired into the same WiFi system used by passengers.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:32AM (#171523)

    Stupid people are the decision makers because they are the majority. You are the minority. You are the loser. You are the one who is out of tune with planet Earth. Get it straight.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:24PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:24PM (#171542) Journal

    Decision makers are compatible with monkey language, thus they get their position by promotion by same monkeys ;)