Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ?
Shall we start playing with EICAS messages?
“PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ?
Can a Airplane be hacked?
Was Roberts right in hacking a plane?
Was he right in boasting it public through social media?
Had he crossed the sacred white hat hackers line in hacking a plane?
There are lot more questions than answers to the whole mid-air plane hacking saga.
We attempt to answer those.
The experts world over are divided on Roberts white hat exploits.
While some say that Roberts is lying other say that it is indeed possible to hack a plane.
Hacking guru, Kevin Mitnick calls the plane hacking a bluff.
This brings us to the most important question in the whole plane hacking saga.
Was FBI right in hounding Roberts for making the tweet?
Roberts had been working on airplane security since 2012 which can be seen in YouTube presentationhere.
However, this seems a remote possibility as of now.
Experts have already said that plane hacking is possible and can be destructive.
We will only know that once more details are made public.
source: www.techworm.net
