Cybersecurity
Hacking an Airplane With Only an Android Phone
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So it looks like someone could hack a jetliner. With an Android smartphone. Awesome.
At the Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam, security consultant Hugo Teso demonstrated PlaneSploit, an app he developed that he claims can take control of certain systems aboard an airplane and cause it to change direction or just crash itself into the ground.