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You 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
by willvarfar 9y ago
You 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.