Then you say that he "admitted it". Admitted or claimed? While you're turning his boast into an admission please specify the precise degree of the hack.
Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane | WIRED
Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, told the FBI agent during an interview in February that he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight. He was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course, the document states.
“He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights,” FBI Special Agent Mark Hurley wrote in his warrant application (.pdf). “He also stated that he used Vortex software after comprising/exploiting or ‘hacking’ the airplane’s networks. He used the software to monitor traffic from the cockpit system.”
FBI: researcher admitted to hacking plane in-flight, causing it to ?climb? | Ars Technica
Roberts did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment, but he told Wired on Friday that this paragraph was taken out of context.
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"It would appear from what I’ve seen that the federal guys took one paragraph out of a lot of discussions and a lot of meetings and notes and just chose that one as opposed to plenty of others," he said, declining to elaborate further.
So what did he say -? Did the FBI agent lie?- under penalty of perjury. Was the FBI allegation without foundation ?
Check my initial post on the subject and the links and the claims by both sides and the supposed quotes.
Bottom line - there ARE concerns at least for older planes prior to 777 for example per the fed register post earlier.
And read the concerns stated at
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-370