John B, in the IT world the presence of a firewall is not in the least bit synonymous with hack-proof. If there is no need at all for the customer network to communication with the plane's operations network, why in the world would anyone want to trust an application (firewall) sitting on an operating system, sitting on some piece of hardware to protect one network from another when packets have a phenominally hard time aerisolizing and jumping from one network to another? TRUE AIR GAP!
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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John B, in the IT world the presence of a firewall is not in the least bit synonymous with hack-proof. If there is no need at all for the customer network to communication with the plane's operations network, why in the world would anyone want to trust an application (firewall) sitting on an operating system, sitting on some piece of hardware to protect one network from another when packets have a phenominally hard time aerisolizing and jumping from one network to another? TRUE AIR GAP!