26.04.2015 - 15:16 [ Forbes ]

Hacker In Trouble With Feds After Tweeting About ‚Playing‘ With Plane Comms Mid-Flight

(17.April) What’s the first rule of flight club? No, it’s not “don’t talk about flight club”. The first rule is: do not tweet about hacking flight systems when using the on-board Wi-Fi. But pro hacker and founder of One World Labs, Chris Roberts, did just that on a trip from Denver to Syracuse yesterday. His tweet wouldn’t have made much sense to the average Twitter user: (…)

But it made sense to US government officials, who evidently picked up on the references to on-board communications systems (the tweets did not refer to compromising flight control technologies).