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2015-04-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Wi-Fi makes airplanes vulnerable to hackers

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 These guys would be particularly vulnerable to a certain well-placed April Fool's Day joke . . . .

Posted by gorb 2015-04-16 07:16|| 2015-04-16 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The flight controls almost certainly don't use TCP/IP, and the odds the airlines were dumb enough to connect the customer-facing WiFi to anything except power AND not have hired guns test their security are close to nil.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-04-16 08:31|| 2015-04-16 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone has been watching too much T.V.

Between this stupid assertion, the White House being hacked, and clintons email server, I wonder if anything is secured anymore.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-04-16 09:17|| 2015-04-16 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like somebody is still a bit sensitive about having their bulletproof security bypassed by Stuxnet.

Posted by Bobby 2015-04-16 13:46|| 2015-04-16 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure there is some place where you can plug in a wifi dongle into the flight system computer.

And I doubt it would be noticed. perhaps for a while.

If they use wifi for the plane's systems that is madness.

Posted by phil_b 2015-04-16 21:09|| 2015-04-16 21:09|| Front Page Top

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