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I find this hard to believe. I always thought that IFE and avionics are on separate machines and run over different internal networks and wires. But I'm also no
by jonathanstrange 9y ago
I find this hard to believe. I always thought that IFE and avionics are on separate machines and run over different internal networks and wires. But I'm also not a Boeing engineer.
Can someone confirm the above post?
- willvarfar 9y agoYou or I would have completely different sets of wires. Sadly, it seems they usually share wires and are separated by firewalls. There's been lots of CCC and defcon talks about hacking in-flight systems. Googling "panasonic ife hack" gets plenty of hits, as does "Chris Roberts" who is a hacker who has made some pretty big claims about actually really hacking planes in flight and other stupid things. And there are articles like this https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-passenger-wi-fi/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-... that talk about how the systems share wires.
- tptacek 9y agoI don't know anyone who believes those claims, which have become a kind of shared joke in the software security community.
- willvarfar 9y agoRoberts? Yes. Shared wires? That's fact, right?
- tptacek 9y agoI'm simply commenting on the notion that any packet he sent an IFE caused the plane to literally, perceptibly move. I don't need or want to derive the probability of that having occurred from first principles.
- dkersten 9y agoNobody in the office here (I work on IFE & avionics software) believes those claims either.