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Please don't connect jet engines to the internet and use a REST API to control them.


Haha

Actually of course it’s about collecting data for predictive maintenance and to help in making design improvements.


Yeah, that's when things work well. But soon someone finds a use-after-free in that code et voilà now he has full control[1] over the engine.

[1] OK, maybe not full control over the engine because that's not how it works, but it has full control over the embedded monitoring system, which is still pretty bad.




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