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Second this. It is terrifying to know that mission critical, medical grade software runs on a consumer operating system. Military/aerospace systems have numerou

Second this. It is terrifying to know that mission critical, medical grade software runs on a consumer operating system. Military/aerospace systems have numerous requirements and clearly defined practices and ways of developing these systems, often going through various layers of documentation and using specifically designed programming languages(like the Z programming language) to write specifications, which are then re-written into code, but it seems like medical industry has been neglected.

ktRolster 10y ago
Then this story about viruses at a nuclear power plant won't make you feel any better: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany-idUSKCN0XN2OS http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany... Some great quotes: "Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for Finland-based F-Secure, said that infections of critical infrastructure were surprisingly common" "Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit."
- zyxley 10y ago
  > The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit. The moral of the story: If you include any kind of port in something, people WILL plug things into it sooner or later.
- ams6110 10y ago
  Sounds suspect to me. Aircraft computers are not running Android.
  - copperx 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure the entertainment system runs on some version of Android.
  - koluft 10y ago
    They run USB, it doesn't matter what OS is on the other side.
    - ams6110 10y ago
      Sure it does. If you plug a USB drive full of Windows viruses into a Linux box, nothing will happen.
  - clay_to_n 10y ago
    Is there Android malware that, when connected to a Windows PC, spreads Windows malware? Sounds reasonable in this situation.

ktRolster 10y ago

Then this story about viruses at a nuclear power plant won't make you feel any better: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany-idUSKCN0XN2OS http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany... Some great quotes: "Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for Finland-based F-Secure, said that infections of critical infrastructure were surprisingly common" "Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit."

zyxley 10y ago
> The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit. The moral of the story: If you include any kind of port in something, people WILL plug things into it sooner or later.
ams6110 10y ago
Sounds suspect to me. Aircraft computers are not running Android.
- copperx 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure the entertainment system runs on some version of Android.
- koluft 10y ago
  They run USB, it doesn't matter what OS is on the other side.
  - ams6110 10y ago
    Sure it does. If you plug a USB drive full of Windows viruses into a Linux box, nothing will happen.
- clay_to_n 10y ago
  Is there Android malware that, when connected to a Windows PC, spreads Windows malware? Sounds reasonable in this situation.