This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane’s subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.
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Space agency uses Raspberry Pi to solve satellite encryption puzzle
The European Space Agency thinks it’s found a cheaper way to control a small module – and it’s built around a tiny Raspberry Pi Zero.
In-flight satellite comms vulnerable to remote attack, researcher finds
IOActive’s researcher Ruben Santamarta is the sort of person anyone interested in computer security would probably enjoy sitting next to on a long flight. Take the journey he made last November between Madrid and Copenhagen on Norwegian during which (naturally) he decided to use Wireshark to study the aircraft’s in-flight Wi-Fi.