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FAA: Terrorists Could Hack New Boeing Jetliner (foxnews.com)
2 points by gibsonf1 on Jan 10, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Just like prison wardens were afraid Mitnick could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone...?

Beoing's engineers would have to be brain dead for this to be a problem. The only reason [I can think of] for the in-flight entertainment systems to be linked to any navigation equipment is for those live maps and speed/altitude data, but even that could easily be linked to a separate GPS receiver.




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