http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/hacker-tweets-about-hacking-plane-gets-computers-seized/
By Thomas Fox-Brewster
Forbes Staff
4/17/2015
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
https://twitter.com/Sidragon1/status/588433855184375808
Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start
playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? :)
— Chris Roberts (@Sidragon1) April 15, 2015
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). Rogers said when the
flight landed, he was grabbed by FBI agents, questioned for four hours and
when Rogers declined to hand over his computing equipment, they seized it
all, including an iPad, a MacBook Pro, three hard drives, a flash drive
and some USB sticks. He got to keep his phone.
All devices were encrypted, so the border control cops may have had a
tough time getting anything useful from Roberts’ machines. He still hasn’t
retrieved his toys and has not seen a warrant.
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