Man könne eine F-35 genauso jailbreaken wie ein iPhone, sagt der niederländische Verteidigungschef

Yep. Just install a specific app and let it run. Then you can install any app store you want on your F-35

Imagine bricking an F-35

Lockheed Martin: That’s impossible!

The Netherlands: We hired a dozen Ukrainian hardware hackers and told them it was a John Deere tractor.

Lockheed Martin: …Oh fuck… That thing will be running Doom by tomorrow morning.

Sure. The hard part is getting access. If someone unauthorized gets anywhere near an F-35 much less inside one then there have been MANY security failures already.

Of course it should be fixed but still.

For context, it wasn’t the defence chief but a politician (the secretary of defence) who made this remark in a Dutch interview. Furthermore, Boeing has reportedly been slow to release updates making the plane compatible with EU weapons, specifically mentioning Stormshadow. This could also be a countermeasure against the Americans if they ever decide to disable the F35.

This is actually true. If anything, the jailbreak hack might make the plane better.

Jailbreaking or rooting involves finding some privilege escalation vulnerability (usually paired with a persistence mechanism) to bypass the security controls. Technically, it fundamentally subverts the security model and blasts it wide open.

So basically imagine your F-35 has a gaping hole in it, say, a use-after-free memory bug in the OS that allows an attacker to achieve RCE in the kernel. Yes, it allows you to jailbreak it and make it run Doom or play fart noises using knowledge of the vulnerability. It also allows anyone else with knowledge of the vulnerability to take over the system. Imagine if this condition was triggerable over the air, by crafting the right messages or signals to it.

That’s something you want patched right away. And that’s true for any device you can jailbreak or root when its whole security model was supposed to be designed to prevent running unauthorized code.

You only have to be found out that you’ve done it once and you’ll never to sell an aircraft again.  And of course also have to worry about bad actors finding out how to do it too.

I think it’s unlikely.

Yeah every computer has a root user 

Okay, but can it run Doom ?

Can you get the display brightness to go below the minimum factory setting? That’s what I miss most about my jailbroken Iphone 4.

So tom cruise really didn’t fly that plane???

I highly highly doubt this. I bet it bricks the aircraft more than anything.