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Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher
wired_parrot writes In a presentation to be shown Thursday at the Black Hat conference, cybersecurity consultant Ruben Santamarta is expected to outline how planes can be hacked via inflight wi-fi. Representatives of in-flight communication systems confirmed his findings but downplayed the risks, noting that physical access to the hardware would still be needed and only the communication system would be affected.
... but only by using Python.
THL phish sticks
Quick, get Samuel L. Jackson on the phone.
I smell a blockbuster movie in the works!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
ahh... so just all the passenger data can be hijacked.
nothing to worry about here.
Google and the NSA are worried... about someone else encroaching on their turf.
#DeleteChrome
Is it as Ruben Santamarta says, that the plane's satellite communications system can be hacked into via the plane's wifi? Or is it as the manufacturers say, and the hacker would have to have physical access to the hardware and couldn't do much of anything anyway? There's two very different points of view here and I'm not sure how they're supposed to meet up.
It's a bit odd to talk about physical access when speaking about a metal tube flying along at 35,000 feet.
It's not like attacks are going to take place outside the plane.
That is what William Shatner thought.
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Any airplane manufacturer that is stupid enough to link their passenger wi-fi system to ANYTHING else, deserves to get a few planes stuffed into the ground.
Preferably with you on board.