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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by jonathanstrange on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @10:51AM (#15184118)
I find this hard to believe. I always thought that IFE and avionics are on separate machines and run over different internal networks and wires. But I'm also not a Boeing engineer.

Can someone confirm the above post?

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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by willvarfar on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:06AM (#15184247)
You or I would have completely different sets of wires.

Sadly, it seems they usually share wires and are separated by firewalls.

There's been lots of CCC and defcon talks about hacking in-flight systems. Googling "panasonic ife hack" gets plenty of hits, as does "Chris Roberts" who is a hacker who has made some pretty big claims about actually really hacking planes in flight and other stupid things. And there are articles like this https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-... that talk about how the systems share wires.

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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by tptacek on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:27AM (#15184414)
I don't know anyone who believes those claims, which have become a kind of shared joke in the software security community.
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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by dkersten on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:31PM (#15185484)
Nobody in the office here (I work on IFE & avionics software) believes those claims either.
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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by willvarfar on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:38AM (#15184492)
Roberts? Yes.

Shared wires? That's fact, right?

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Re:Boeing 787 In Flight Entertainment System Security fun by tptacek on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:06PM (#15184726)
I'm simply commenting on the notion that any packet he sent an IFE caused the plane to literally, perceptibly move. I don't need or want to derive the probability of that having occurred from first principles.
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