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Excellent Analysis of the Boeing 737 Max Software Problems

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This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read.

Technically this is safety and not security; there was no attacker. But the fields are closely related and there are a lot of lessons for IoT security—and the security of complex socio-technical systems in general—in here.

EDITED TO ADD (4/30): A rebuttal of sorts.

EDITED TO ADD (5/13): The comments to this blog post are of particularly high quality, and I recommend them to anyone interested in the topic.

Tags: air travel, certifications, complexity, risks

Posted on April 22, 2019 at 8:45 AM121 Comments

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