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Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone

Interesting read:

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An extremely well attended talk by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs AG in Germany, about the completely realistic scenario of plane hijacking via a simple Android app has galvanized the crowd attending the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam today.

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Teso, who has been working in IT for the last eleven years and has been a trained commercial pilot for a year longer than that, has combined his two interests in order to bring to light the sorry state of security of aviation computer systems and communication protocols.

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I'll stick to ground transport thank you very much.

Don't want Habib flying my transportation from a seat in coach.:hmmm: