Of course, it’s hackable. It’s a 1000 foot, 100,000 ton ship built in 2015 with a 22 man crew. A ship that big and new with a crew small is going to be heavily computerized. If it has an internet connection, it’s hackable.
Doesn’t mean it was, but these days someone can hack you toaster.
Fitzgerald was 730 feet, just as heavy and only had a crew of 29, built in '58.
There's computerization - sure. But you also mentioned something rather important - is propulsion connected to the internet? and can you even get a signal buried under 100k tons of steel and 9k TEUs on deck and does it make sense to do that attack at 1am when it's LEAST likely to create loss of life?
Like I said - boat guys here are saying - nope.
Stop. Is there a mechanical linkage from the bridge to the rudder? No? Of course, not in a ship that large. An electric signal goes from A to B…from micro processor to microprocessor. It’s hackable.
As for making sense. Bro, don’t be stupid. If it were a cyber attack, the point is not to kill people on the bridge. That’s an afterthought. The point is to bring the bridge down and shut down the port for the next year.
Yep if the ships computers are connected to the internet it is hackable. Odd these simpletons can't seem to understand the obvious.
IF connected - that's the fugging point.
And IF the ones connected ALSO connect to propulsion.
I get drive by wire, I work for a SaaS company specializing in transportation AI, ML and automation - I get what's possible. It's just not probably on this.
What I am saying is the odds that the internet connected computers are ALSO connected to both ship power, and propulsion AND were hacked at 1am in the middle of a river through the faraday cage that is an all metal ship with TEUs all over it and THEN being able to take positive control, shut down the power - completely time the wind, tides, boat speed and channel water speed to create a 100k ton Fast and Furious Tokyo drift - while ALSO allowing coms to the bridge to tell them to close it and hit the bridge - yep. That's the MOST LIKELY event. /sarc
Again - the guys I talked to last night who build the damned things say this - not gonna happen. The intelligence officers I know and have known for 2 decades agree. Like zero thought has ever been put into place over the last 20+ years about the possibility and precautions taken.
JFC - this isn't someone figuring out your yahoo account email.
So under no circumstance could this have been the work of a bad actor? I'm sure that the people who put effort and time into figuring out how to remote control ships, cars, MSNBC brain scans might have capabilities we don't know about. How about someone who has been on board? One of the videos I watched showed the ship to veer starboard and hit the bridge pillar just a bit off center. It takes a lot to turn a ship that big. Interesting that it is registered in Singapore.
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