https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/10/boeing_747_floppy_drive_updates_walkthrough/
By Gareth Corfield
The Register
08/10/2020
DEF CON -- Boeing 747-400s still use floppy disks for loading critical
navigation databases, Pen Test Partners has revealed to the infosec
community after poking about one of the recently abandoned aircraft.
The eye-catching factoid emerged during a DEF CON video interview of PTP's
Alex Lomas, where the man himself gave a walkthrough of a 747-400, its
avionics bay and the flight deck.
Although airliners are not normally available to curious infosec
researchers, a certain UK-based Big Airline's decision to scrap its B747
fleet gave Pen Test Partners a unique opportunity to get aboard one and
have a poke about before the scrap merchants set about their grim task.
"Aircraft themselves are really expensive beasts, you know," said Lomas as
he filmed inside the big Boeing. "Even if you had all the will in the
world, airlines and manufacturers won't just let you pentest an aircraft
because [they] don't know what state you're going to leave it in."
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