Planes can be hacked with a phone?

[G7PSK]

apparently air planes can be hacked with a phone so there is no longer any need to smugle explosives on board just walk on with a phone and take over. Well if this report is to be believed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/11/security-researcher-proves-plane-hack_n_3059602.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cukt2%7Cdl12%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D171146

[David]

I don't know where to start with this! Basically, in reality, it is simply not possible. The media have taken this out of context completely as always.

Dave

[ddavidebor]

apparently air planes can be hacked with a phone so there is no longer any need to smugle explosives on board just walk on with a phone and take over. Well if this report is to be believed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/11/security-researcher-proves-plane-hack_n_3059602.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cukt2%7Cdl12%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D171146

Faaaaake

[Skimask]

Looks like that article was posted about 11 days too late...

[PaulAm]

Read the actual article

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14733

It's a proof of concept running in a virtual environment.  That does not mean the flaws are not present.  Nobody outside the security community thought Stuxnet was possible either.

[smashedProton]

A: Plane flight control systems wouldnt be connected in software to a radio of any kind.  Unless you change the firmware of virtually every computer in the plane.  Which is impossible.  The plane might not even have the hardware to do it.

B: Plane radios do not operate at 900 MHz like GSM.

C: The interface isn't fast enough to get past encrypion, even if the functionality does exist.

Whoever believes this crap is smoking crack