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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. It plans to fly again on Saturday but United Airlines kept them off the plane. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

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For example, I have a laptop and it runs Linux so I can get into network security. The details of these two hacks are far more nuanced, of course, but both lit up the media with concerns about cars randomly driving off the road and airplanes under the control of a rogue passenger. I can do those basic things. I think he was a citizen.