Nats says that the failure was triggered by a single piece of data in a flight plan that was wrongly input to its system by an unnamed airline.

It will be fascinating as the details of this emerge.

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[–] 48 points 2 years ago

As a reminder, if you can crash a program with malformed input, you're most of the way to finding a security hole allowing you to exploit that program with malformed input.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S

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