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by Kurtz79 4098 days ago
You can hardly compare an embedded software running on an Airplane to an Internet facing web server.
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Why not? What is the crucial difference, from the unauthorised intrusion POV? "This should not happen, therefore it cannot happen" is not an appropriate response here. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16696-FACT-CHECK-SCADA...

(Note that I didn't mention anything about webservers, or Internet; are you sure the in-flight entertainment systems are separated from the control network by anything else than a firewall rule? See other embedded systems, and how secure they are. Start with...IDK, Toyota's gas pedal code, see how well such safety-critical code was written: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... )