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I hope they got their system thoroughly pen tested... I bet you there are not two satellite aerials on the plane and you can bet that the important navigation

I hope they got their system thoroughly pen tested... I bet you there are not two satellite aerials on the plane and you can bet that the important navigation systems are in some way connected to the network. Hopefully this just the aerial connected to two routers but it's probably a single router. I think I want to fly on this and start running nmap ;-) I suppose that would be considered hacking though.

davb 11y ago
Internet access via IFE (in-flight entertainment) systems and WiFi has been a thing for a good while now. There's no new attack vector or failure mode in that respect.
ams6110 11y ago
There are almost certainly at least two aerials at least for the nav systems because almost every important system on an aircraft is redundant in the event one of them fails.