Validate your input, I guess
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/uk-air-traffic-control-failure-what-caused-it-and-who-will-have-to-payOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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.
Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;
My mum was definitely onto something.
Ah, you're travelling in to London'); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?
Who would have thought that validating your inputs would be a good idea? /S