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No it's not, granted the headline makes it sound scarier than the reality. > we did find ways to compromise the in-flight entertainment systems. But one of the
by cantSpellSober 3y ago
No it's not, granted the headline makes it sound scarier than the reality.
> we did find ways to compromise the in-flight entertainment systems. But one of the limitations of our research is that the airplanes that are being retired – they’re the old ones. One of the systems we were working on was 27 years old. It was running Windows NT 4.0.
> We also discovered vulnerabilities in some of the apps, which meant if someone had compromised one of these tablets, they could mess around with the calculations [that] tell the pilot how much power they need
> the first vulnerability we found, Boeing came back to us within 24 hours and said, “We agree with you"