Is It Possible for Passengers to Hack Commercial Aircraft? (Executive Summary so far: Apparently not.)
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/possible-passengers-hack-commercial-aircraft/ All of this appears to add up to the conclusion that there's no way Roberts could have hacked the thrust controls of a plane and manipulated the aircraft, either through the IEF, the SATCOM or anything else. But then how to explain the FBI affidavit? Roberts told WIRED after the affidavit came out that the FBI took what he said out of context--that he had multiple conversations with agents and that they highlighted only a small portion of the conversation in the affidavit. This suggests they cherry picked, and possibly jumbled, his statements. - - - Of course, this guy still qualifies as a world class idiot to screw around with this stuff on planes in flight, irrespective of technically possible outcomes. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
