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on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:29AM
from the who'd-have-thought-this-would-ever-happen dept.
from the who'd-have-thought-this-would-ever-happen dept.
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: 5, Informative) by Shimitar on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:05PM
This news smells of stupid people giving stupid announcements to prove their work is valuable.
First of all, the AVIONICS does not share the same busses of the inflight entertainment... The avionics is usually connected over a CAN Aerospace bus or other dedicated busses, in a few cases an ethernet connection might be used, but we are talking of double-redoundant connections over point-to-point lines.
The article is stupid. There is a thing called "civil certification" to get an airworthness certificate which imposes a lot of rules, and WiFi is NOT certified for airworthiness. Not even plain old ethernet is, in the way we use it at home or in the office.
Heck, not even most military graded busses are certified for flight! (MIL-STD-1553 for example only has a few configurations actually ever certified for civil flight).
As for connection to external world, yes, there are data links and part of the avionics suite is indeed connected to the ground and other air vehicles (CPDLC, ADS-B, ADS-C, Link16, and whatever more are used on civil planes) which can all be a security threat, maybe. But, honestly, the cyber terrorist hacking from the ecomy class inflight entertainment is really laughable.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:31PM
How near is these entertainment systems in connection with critical systems?