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Given that airplanes haven’t been hacked yet, security by obscurity seems to have been working...

• linuxftw 7y ago
  Lack of evidence of hacking is not evidence of lack of hacking.
  • DocTomoe 7y ago
    And you are certain that all the "faulty sensors" that come up every now and then are actually mechanically faulty and not some bad actor sending garbage data apparently coming from that sensor to avionics?
• petee 7y ago
  Survivorship bias? Only having just learned that term, it sure seems to apply...of all the planes that have returned and landed safely, none seem to have been hacked; but there is no proof that a hack couldn't have already brought down a plane
  • mayneack 7y ago
    Well, the complete set of modern crashes is relatively small, and the set of crashes with unknown causes is very small, so the number of crashes tied to hacks is probably even smaller.