Hacking the Dreamliner?
Jan 5, 2008 | 2:50 pm
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Hacking the Dreamliner?
http://www.wired.com/politics/securi...liner_security
Great. How long before we aren't allowed to bring laptops onto an aircraft?
According to the FAA document published in the Federal Register (mirrored at Cryptome.org), the vulnerability exists because the plane's computer systems connect the passenger network with the flight-safety, control and navigation network. It also connects to the airline's business and administrative-support network, which communicates maintenance issues to ground crews.
Jan 5, 2008 | 3:08 pm
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unbelievable...
Gunter added that although data can pass between the networks, "there are protections in place" to ensure that the passenger internet service doesn't access the maintenance data or the navigation system "under any circumstance."
Jan 5, 2008 | 5:54 pm
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When it comes to intra-airliner security (e.g. the cockpit door) is that an FAA mandate or TSA mandate? If the latter, then hopefully the TSA can require the passenger LAN to be disabled instead of banning laptops.
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Jan 5, 2008 | 6:36 pm
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Jan 5, 2008 | 8:47 pm
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Great. How long before we aren't allowed to bring laptops onto an aircraft?
Great. How long before we aren't allowed to bring laptops onto an aircraft?
If there's a shred of truth to this article...and I don't doubt it....you KNOW that laptops will be history on these next generation airliners.
Jan 5, 2008 | 10:05 pm
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If this article is true, I am really shocked - totally shocked - that Boeing engineers would have permitted the two logical networks to coexist on the same physical cabling. Totally, 1,000% inexcusable - and I don't care how much weight they saved by doing it this way.