FMS vulnerabilities highlighed at Net Security conference

[FlightPathOBN]

PJ2,

Thanks for the response. As you have noted, it is a very complicated issue. It isnt about GPS jammers, or high powered signals from the ground, these are at best, an annoyance.
This about getting to some of the core processes.
Like a thief, you check all of the ways into the building, and the first thing you is when you get to the 32 floor, you lock down the elevator behind you.

How did this guy supposedly get around the requirements to ACCEPT, LOAD, and EXECUTE a flight plan change; and override the altitude locked in via the MCP?

How are these commands entered?

(in the 744, there are, from what I remember, 4 places where you can command disengage to the autopilot system, and the system can disengage itself?)

edit: this is just f'n great...this made Yahoo news... How a single Android smartphone can crash an airplane)