"We're using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry,"<p>Companies that describe their computer systems as state-of-the-art probably usually have legacy mainframes with duct tape patches.
<i>LOT stressed that the glitch did not affect the airport or aeroplanes that were already in the air.</i><p>In other words, this doesn't seem like an actual avionics hack. It's some other system being targeted, so the planes themselves are probably still OK.
Everybody is waiting for the story of somebody hacking a 747 and flying it from the economy plus section.<p>It'll happen eventually, but hacking the computer that filed the flight plan is not hacking the plane.<p>If LOT had a few back up laptops on a different network they would have been able to file flight plans with no delays.<p>State of the art, space aged technology.
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