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0 pointspavel_lishin9y ago0 comments

> hacking into commercial airliners auto-pilot systems, and directing dozens of flights onto a target.

I would imagine that any pilot would figure out what was going on, unless it was on an incredibly foggy day.

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It's Hollywood, name one movie where the villain did not disable the manual override. That's villainy 101.

Sure, but rayval was talking about a scenario that could happen today.

Although looking at the other comments, I think I'm significantly underestimating just how much of modern airliners is dependent on software. The pilots might be able to see that they're heading for disaster, but may not be able to do anything about it.

blackflame70009y ago

I know for a fact that there are 3 separate computer systems from 3 separate manufacturers on each Boeing airplane. Auto-pilot always uses the consensus of the 3 machines. It's a pretty far-fetched scenario in real life so I thought we were talking fiction.

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0 pointspavel_lishin9y ago0 comments

> hacking into commercial airliners auto-pilot systems, and directing dozens of flights onto a target.

I would imagine that any pilot would figure out what was going on, unless it was on an incredibly foggy day.

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blackflame70009y ago

It's Hollywood, name one movie where the villain did not disable the manual override. That's villainy 101.

pavel_lishinOP9y ago

Sure, but rayval was talking about a scenario that could happen today.

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