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To: don-o
Does anyone know if this aircraft has first class, and if USB ports are available to passengers? Or in all seats? Could the flight software be hacked via a USB from a passenger seat? Or how about wirelessly by a passenger.

I recall there was that 'top secret' drone the U.S. was flying near Iran, then Iran hijacked the drone by commandeering the signals and flying it deep inside Iran.

What are the wireless vulnerabilities of this aircraft?

10 posted on 03/18/2014 9:19:20 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Aircraft systems aren’t designed by idiots. Everyone is free to speculate but this wasn’t caused by some mad hacker who commandeered the plane from seat 36F.


16 posted on 03/18/2014 9:36:28 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

IIRC, the 200ER version was not listed as having the computer vulnerability.

It also does not have the corrosion problem listed in that other Airworthiness Directive. It uses a different type of SATCOM antenna system.


19 posted on 03/18/2014 9:39:04 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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