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Pendant ce temps-là, chez nos cousins les chrétiens modérés d’Amérique, on découvre – stupéfaits – que le best seller documentant pour de vrai comment un jeune garçon de six ans est mort dans un accident, monté au paradis puis redescendu pour, heu, écrire un best seller, hé ben c’est pas vrai. #je_suis_sous_le_choc

Boy Says He Didn’t Go To Heaven ; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book : The Two-Way
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/15/377589757/boy-says-he-didn-t-go-to-heaven-publisher-says-it-will-pull-book

Nearly five years after it hit best-seller lists, a book that purported to be a 6-year-old boy’s story of visiting angels and heaven after being injured in a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up.

Confidence : pendant quelques temps, j’avais pris l’habitude d’aller consulter la liste des « Non Fiction » des best sellers du New York Times, histoire de repérer d’éventuels essais d’analyse politique qui pourraient m’intéresser. Rapidement j’ai arrêté : cette liste est remplie de foutaises spirituo-pouèt-pouèt et ces histoires de visites au paradis sont systématiquement dans le peloton de tête. (Et ne me demande pas pourquoi, au New York Times, ils ne classaient pas tout bêtement ces niaiseries dans la liste Fiction.)

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Researcher Says He’s Found Hackable Flaws In Airplanes’ Navigation Systems
▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/10/researcher-says-hes-found-hackable-flaws-in-airplanes-navigation-systems

By hijacking a protocol used to send data to commercial aircraft and exploiting bugs in flight management software built by companies including Honeywell, Thales and Rockwell Collins, Teso told the crowd that he could send radio signals to planes that would cause them to execute arbitrary commands such as changes in direction, altitude, speed, and the pilots’ displays.

“You can use this system to modify approximately everything related to the navigation of the plane,” Teso told me in an phone interview following his talk. “That includes a lot of nasty things.”

Update: Several companies and aviation safety organizations now claim that Teso’s research wouldn’t work on actual airplanes. See their comments below.

Hackers and security researchers have warned for years of vulnerabilities in next-generation air traffic control protocols. But Teso focused on a different protocol called Aircraft Communications Addressing and Report System, (ACARS) a simple data exchange system that has evolved over decades to now include everything from weather data to airline schedules to changes to the plane’s flight management system. (FMS)

Teso says that ACARS still has virtually no authentication features to prevent spoofed commands. But he spent three years reverse engineering the flight navigation software that receives ACARS signals to find bugs that allowed him to send his own commands to the systems, either from a software-defined radio that can be tuned to use ACARS or from a compromised airline system. In his talk, Teso demonstrated an Android application he built that allowed him to redirect a virtual plane with just a tap on a map application running on his Samsung Galaxy phone. “ACARS has no security at all. The airplane has no means to know if the messages it receives are valid or not,” he says. “So they accept them and you can use them to upload data to the airplane that triggers these vulnerabilities. And then it’s game over.”

In his presentation, Teso explained that he experimented on used FMS hardware he bought from eBay and FMS training simulation software that was advertised as containing some or all of the same code as the systems in real planes. In our interview he declined to specify exactly what vulnerabilities he discovered in that code, saying that he has instead contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Administration, (EASA) and is working with the affected aerospace companies to fix the problems.