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troymc on May 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. f...

Note that the failure was in a new-ish, recently-deployed air traffic control system named ERAM (En Route Automation Modernization), and its backup system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERAM

astrodust on May 5, 2014 [–]

Do they fuzz systems like this, or do they just ship it as soon as the test suite passes?

It seems like there's a whole world of hurt waiting to arrive if people can start to inject data into these systems.

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