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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by dba7dba on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @12:43PM (#9647067)
Considering the ridiculous amount of testing required (rightly so) for any change on the jetliners, they probably cannot keep up with the patches.

One Windows running company I worked for long time ago simply didn't apply the patches. They said it broke things...

Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by TheCapn on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @12:55PM (#9647165)
Depends on the risk it poses and the attack vectors available. If you can assume jetliners use a custom hardware with no web tie ins and no physical access (USB/otherise) then security patches covering attacks that require those vectors are kind of moot aren't they? A whole lot of testing and verification would go into applying a patch that is rendered useless by other security precautions.
Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by stcredzero on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @12:51PM (#9647131)
I've had demos ruined by iOS 8.x patches! (By changes to pretty well established code, like NSTimer and UIImageView updating.) I could easily believe that Windows patches would break things.