FBI trying to criminalize white hat hacker who exposed security flaw that says ANY commercial airline can be hijacked electronically

Wednesday, May 27, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The federal government says it isn’t possible and there is nothing to worry about, but the FBI is nevertheless attempting to punish someone for doing what they have said can’t be done: hack into the Wi-Fi of a commercial airliner in flight.

According to the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), federal law enforcement is publically downplaying a recent report that white hat hacker Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, recently managed to penetrate the wireless fidelity connection of a commercial airliner while it was in flight. Officially, however, it appears that the FBI is taking the matter seriously enough to pursue a search warrant and potential criminal charges against Roberts.

Wired reports that after getting off a flight in Syracuse, New York, in February, Roberts told the FBI that “he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight.” In addition, Roberts told the FBI he “was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course,” according to a federal court document[PDF] filed in April.

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