Topic: Computer Security Expert Claims to Have Taken Over Plane's Systems (Read 338 times)
Good grief, I'm glad I wasn't on that flight. I can only imagine the paranoia setting in when this happened, thinking they could be losing it and going down.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/computer-security-expert-claims-have-taken-over-planes-sytems-n360331
A computer security expert told the FBI that he hacked into an airplane's computer and briefly took over control of the engines, court documents reveal.
Chris Roberts, CTO and founder of One World Labs, told FBI agents he connected his computer to the in-flight entertainment system and the overwrote code to commandeer the thrust management system, according to a search warrant filed last month in the federal court in Syracuse, N.Y.
"He [Roberts] stated that he successfully commanded the system he had accessed to issue the "CLB" or climb command," FBI Special Agent Mark Hurley wrote in the warrant application. "He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights."
A computer security expert told the FBI that he hacked into an airplane's computer and briefly took over control of the engines, court documents reveal.
Chris Roberts, CTO and founder of One World Labs, told FBI agents he connected his computer to the in-flight entertainment system and the overwrote code to commandeer the thrust management system, according to a search warrant filed last month in the federal court in Syracuse, N.Y.
"He [Roberts] stated that he successfully commanded the system he had accessed to issue the "CLB" or climb command," FBI Special Agent Mark Hurley wrote in the warrant application. "He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights."
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