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Old Dec 23, 2014 | 8:41 pm
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Originally Posted by wco81
Interesting.

One of the advantages of the US Air Force is the modern avionics in the aircraft.

Wonder Russians and Chinese don't try to hack them in addition to US businesses and govt networks.
Boeing -- and parts that have become or were part of Boeing -- have been the target of hacking efforts, some of which worked ... at least for more mundane kind of hacking. Same goes for other aeronautical and parts engineering companies in this space.

Rather than requiring an Internet or other network connection for a disabling hack, there are other ways to design disabling features in the hardware and/or software systems that can work without an online computer to computer network connection

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