IOActive’s researcher Ruben Santamarta is the sort of person anyone interested in computer security would probably enjoy sitting next to on a long flight. Take the journey he made last November between Madrid and Copenhagen on Norwegian during which (naturally) he decided to use Wireshark to study the aircraft’s in-flight Wi-Fi.
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Could a hacker *really* bring down a plane from a mobile phone in seat 12C?
A recent document about Air Traffic Control from the US Government Accountability Office has caused quite a stir. Could a passenger get the plane to do a barrel roll without even turning off the in-flight movie?