![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, as the Dreamliner was being born, the idea of an e-Enabled airplane-one that lets passengers connect to the Internet with commercial off-the-shelf electronics and Internet protocols, used for in-flight entertainment and some communications systems-wasn’t as scary as it is today. Vanguardia is a cybersecurity engineer with Boeing, the company that gave the world its first “e-Enabled” commercial airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. Mike Vanguardia is one of an army of engineers who work to keep them out. The not-so-shocking news is that hackers have tried. No hacker has ever penetrated the computers of an airliner’s flight control system or any part of its avionics. So far, the protections devised by those engineers-and the ones who came after them-have worked. Modern aircraft have sometimes been called computers with wings, and as far back as 1994, long before hacking became high on society’s list of everyday worries, Boeing engineers were having discussions about how to keep malicious software from being introduced into the data network of their newest marvel, the 777 airliner.
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