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New air traffic control system, which is wonderful. but it relies on satellites and computer interfacing literally to fly around the world seamlessly. so now, the second part says, and not only did the faa not take into consideration cyber security and developing this system and putting up good fire walls in air traffic control, they looked at the aircraft and made sure that the aircraft can with stand cyber attacks. and so the alarm now is for the government to go back and apply these standards...

These standards and really develop a threat model so they can defend against it. >> its scary because the report says its possible. this is one of the key things i noticed. someone on the plane or on the ground could hack into the flight control systems. to me thats a game changer in a lot of waz, not least of which is the fact a terrorist can take down a jet without having to be onboard. without having to be willing to kill yourself to do it. not like 9/11 where they had to get past security an...