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Boeing developing hacker-proof military drone using Ivory
- hackuser 12y agoRelevant excerpts: The software will isolate all communications between the ground station and the aircraft from the outside world, according to program participants. “Its main purpose is to rewrite and secure the mission computer on board the Little Bird,” and Typically, most commercial and military vehicles are powered by general purpose programming languages, such as C or C++, which have a number of security holes, said Lee Pike, Galois research lead for cyber-physical systems. He facilitated the hacker-proof minidrone flight in 2014. “We’ve developed a new programming language that is provably free from those vulnerabilities,” he said. “The approach is to transition the programming language we’ve developed, called Ivory, to Boeing so that they can rewrite their systems.”