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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 11:33 am
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alanR
 
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Originally Posted by firequall
Internet systems on flights are completely separate from cockpit control systems. There is absolutely no way the two could interact with each other.
Didn't the 787 have to have mods when it was realised the IFE was using the same circuitry as the avionics and hence was theoretically hackable

As for Wikileaks, the problem there was that 2 million people in the US had direct & uncontrolled access to the data - and one of them took a copy of it then sent it to Wikileaks, nothing to do with hacking
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