Really? You certainly seemed to be making a Big Deal of it just a few posts earlier... I guess we can consider pretty much any OS available today is susceptible to trojans, then?
The point, however, is that a malware Trojan DID play a pivotal role in this accident. Denying it is willfull blindness.
Denying is going on where? Certainly not I!
And of course, as the article points out, of MUCH bigger concern was the obvious failure to follow the pre-flight checklists by the pilot and co-pilot. This was predominantly a pilot error crash. The trojan on the ground support computer did NOT stop operation of that computer or its systems, just made it slow. And thus the ground crew took the lazy way out and did not enter the data.
It was human error in the cockpit, and human error on the flight line that caused this tragedy. It was most assuredly NOT the computer.
No, not you. But driftdiver has sure been trying awfully hard to do just that.
A series of events resulted in this accident. One of which, one that could have certainly prevented it had it not occurred, was the failure of the test computer to detect the failure of the on board warning system due to the Trojan. Is it possible the pilot would have ignored a WORKING warning system? I doubt it.