[callesgg]

I have been tempted to play with the entertainment screen in airplanes a couple of times.

But as it is on an airplane traveling 900km/h 10 000m in the air. I dont feel like poking at stuff that is connected to the stuff that is keeping me and the other passengers alive.

Also it i don't feel like speeding life in prison.

But those things don't exactly feel like top quality stuff. They feel more like something that than be crashed and taken over in 20 minutes using a teensy++ and a Linux laptop.

[Ripsaw]

Interestingly enough this is the reason why planes really arn't safe security wise.

Just about every other industry has to worry about Compsec researchers busting in and screaming that the end is nigh. But not airplanes. You even try touching one of them and you will be in for quite a ride through the joys of bureaucracy.

It's the basis of QA, your customers will use your product in ways you never intended. It could go on to say that through your customers misuse of the product you will be able to make your product better.

But with planes, the intended use gets so much more critical and the number of people who test it gets incredibly low. If these systems aren't tested, errors wont be found. And one day someone is going to hook up to a plane and try to bring it down. And it is because of this lack of use outside of intention that an attacker will be successful.

Obviously, I never want to be on a plane next to a security researcher plugged into the aircraft, but I think the secrecy around aircraft is their biggest vulnerability. A solution that would work somewhat counter intuitively would be parking a plane at LAS this summer for all the Black Hat and DEF CON attendees to play with. The resulting publications would without a doubt revolutionize aircraft security.

EDIT:Just fixing some grammar here and there.

[witty_username]

In-flight entertainment system is barely connected to the important parts of the airplane, if at all.

[Grue3]

Future HN headline:

Hackers Remotely Kill a Boeing during Flight - With Me in It

[breadbox]

Last week I would have sworn the same was true of cars.

[justizin]

[citation needed]

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-p...

[anseljh]

We hope.

[callesgg]

I have read that before, sounds like something a sales person would say. I have never seen a proper source for the statement.

And even so if the screen in-front of every passenger did then started to spew a bunch of boot logs and generally behave strangely. I beet people would become quite scared.