This is a question that has been on the minds of the Federal Aviation Administration with regards to the new Boeing 787.  That being said, you could say that thepassenger features on this plane could be its primary security holes.  By giving each seat it’s own datalink, passengers will be able to have online capabilities throughout their flight.  This could obviously be a very threatening thing if any sort of hacker can access this, since they would be able to break into the plane’s flight systems from their own seat.  Since they will probably keep this feature in the plane, the question is how will they be able to protect the plane?

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded Boeing’s new 787 airliner after concerns about the integrity of its computer systems.

The FAA said last week that it was unhappy with the possibility of passengers being able to hack into the aircraft’s flight systems using the data links built into each seat.

“The proposed architecture of the 787 allows passenger connectivity to previously isolated data networks connected to systems that perform functions required to the safe operation of the airplane,” the FAA report stated.

“This new passenger connectivity may result in security vulnerabilities from intentional corruption of data and systems critical to the safety of the airplane.”

Boeing has said that it is working with the FAA to resolve the problem and that it had already built a firewall between the systems. The manufacturer claims that the systems would be 100 per cent secure.[more]

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