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Apr. 11th, 2013 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingRemote controlling an airplane from your phone!
No, not a model airplane. A real one. Without the permission of the pilot.
No, not a model airplane. A real one. Without the permission of the pilot.
theweaselking
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Date: 2013-04-11 01:53 pm (UTC)The plural of "aircraft" is "aircraft", not "aircrafts". Normally, I'm not a nitpicker about grammar, but I had to stop reading after the third time they did this.
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Date: 2013-04-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-11 03:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-11 04:03 pm (UTC)(Kidding -- but that's both fascinating and terrifying!!)
Glad the industry is willing to address the vulnerabilities -- nice to know, in the meanwhile, while the passengers are going through Security Theater, the fucking PLANE is hijackable -- gah!!
-- A <3
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Date: 2013-04-12 02:37 pm (UTC)He has proven that pilots are just as easily socially engineered by text message as by voice over radio. Except that pilots are much less likely to trust their computers than to trust a human on the radio.
This is all old news, Die Hard 2 isn't really possible.
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Date: 2013-04-12 03:20 pm (UTC)