New and notes from around the interweb:
- Mention Hotels.com in your wedding vows and you may get a free honeymoon
- Boeing 787 software hacking vulnerabilities. Boeing says the hacks that are described to be possible won’t have serious consequences. Bruce Schneier doesn’t believe them.
- “Finding Amelia Earhart’s lost plane seemed impossible. Then came a startling clue”
- Even as the FAA is said not to require flight simulator training for the 737 MAX, Southwest has ordered more sims, and meanwhile Lion Air which had the first 737 MAX crash says they need more of the planes.
American Airlines Flight Simulators - The guy with the viral video about taking a Delta flight from Aspen to Salt Lake City by himself never actually took off. Criticize him all you want, but it’s striking that Delta let this story spread and took the great publicity.
- North Korea’s tiny terrible airline Air Koryo
Not sure why everyone thinks Air Koryo is terrible. When I flew them, they fed us a full meal in a 90 minute flight! It honestly wasn’t much worse than flying China Eastern.
Agree with tprophet. Air Koryo isn’t so bad. I know it’s cool to mock North Korea, but Air Koryo is definitely not one of the reasons to.
Boeing 787 cyberattack: As a Boeing shareholder, I would like for Boeings Board of Directors to investigate Boeing Managements position that the aircraft control software is not hackable. A key weakness in Boeings statement is that only data passes from one network to the other. In fact, the customer accessible network should not be connected in any way to the aircraft control network.
In fact, the customer access network should not be connected in any way to the aircraft control network.