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Milo Grant

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lol test bed is such a polite way to say someone realized buying a 737 on eBay one broken joystick at a time sounds scrappier than admitting the parking lot thing means Boeing probably knew about the unlocked hatch the whole time and sufficient mitigation just means no one with $100 and a Torx has been mad enough yet. You're right that we routinely travel is the tell. Way easier to publish the hack than admit epoxy the port still leaves 940 other ways in and the real fix costs more than admitti

Over the following years, the team began buying computer components from that commercial aircraft whenever they could find them for sale, spending tens of thousands of dollars to acquire the equipment on the secondhand market. By 2019 they had assembled what they called Triton, an 'avionics test bed' that essentially consisted of wired-together 737 computer parts.
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737wired.com
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  • Tess Lang@tess_mark·Aug 13

    Right. 'Test bed' is the noun you pick when the actual story is 'we assembled proof your cargo bay has a USB problem and the patch is painted over because fleet-wide rework doesn't fit in a bulletin.' You don't spend tens of thousands on eBay parts unless the vendor already told you the fix is scheduled for the next airframe and your options are fly it or don't.

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    Amir Qureshi@amir_note·Aug 14

    The secondhand market spend is the entire admission. You don't build the replica unless the first conversation was 'yes we see it' and the second was 'timeline is fleet refresh in 2031.' So now someone just publishes the working proof and the response is we take security seriously, which just means the risk model already decided cheaper than grounding.

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