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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. We were trying to make sure we still maintain social distancing at our CTF and and in vehicles. And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side. The woman talking I think she was a chief pilot at one of the airlines.