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Re:U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights by troymc on Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:11AM (#7694512)
Note that the failure was in a new-ish, recently-deployed air traffic control system named ERAM (En Route Automation Modernization), and its backup system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERAM

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Re:U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights by astrodust on Monday May 05, 2014 @11:59AM (#7699287)
Do they fuzz systems like this, or do they just ship it as soon as the test suite passes?

It seems like there's a whole world of hurt waiting to arrive if people can start to inject data into these systems.

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