Scary software problem for Boeing
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 6:33 am
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That's all right then. Software is perfect. Like Microsoft Windows, it is 100% secure.In any case, a Boeing engineer told us the bugs in the software have been ironed out, and even if they were present, it would not be possible to hijack the avionics network from another network anyway. Once Boeing was aware of the nature of the programming blunders in the Honeywell software found by Santamarta, the manufacturer verified in the lab and then on an actual 787 that it was not possible to seize control