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
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