Won t comment on specific allegations, there s no credible information to suggest an airplane s flight control system can be accessed or manipulated from in-flight entertainment system. this law enforcement official says they don t frankly believe right now you could take control of the airplane from your computer. still of concern that a guy could sit there and plug into the entertainment system at a minimum and fiddle around, yes? bravo to that investigator, number one. i m sure they consulted with boeing or airbus to see if this was plausible but they would know this ahead of time. there are two separate systems. you re talking about entertainment system and the flight control system. some of our systems like on the airplane i fly, 777, it s a fly by wire system. that doesn t mean that the systems are operated by wi-fi. to hack into that would require
Controls the in-flight entertainment system. this is the system we watch movies on listen to music. he said through that he was able to hack into the control systems for the aircraft. we should say that boeing which is one of the aircraft he said he was able to do this on boeing says there is a separation of the computer systems, that it s not possible. same thing with airbus that he says he s able to do this. airbus said they put spy laws to make sure this doesn t happen. this is an investigation still going. i should say chris roberts has been tweeting in the last couple days after this affidavit was made public and he says that the fbi has taken everything that he said out of context, and he hasn t said anything more about it. really quickly, is there a feeling he was blowing a whistle or was this some kind of cat and mouse game or do fbi investigators think there is something else behind this?
A hitten danger lurking in the sky. terrorist hackers could attack in the air. a plane engine stalling in mid-air with the click of a button. right now on the record investigation whether in-flight wi-fi and on board televisions are putting passes jerusalem at risk. well, it sounds awful. absolutely terrifying. is it possible? could terrorists remotely bring down a plane by hacking into the in-flight entertainment system? cyber security expert chris roberts joins us. chris, is it possible? yes, it is possible for that to occur. definitely. is it difficult and is the faa ready for this? it is definitely difficult. it takes a lot of work. it takes a lot of research. and you have to typically be on quite a number of flights to figure out the different are a architectures of the
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Only walking it back today to just cover for themselves. i think it s more serious than they are leading us to believe. i don t think it would ever happen. i think that, you know. australia has it. i don t think it was that serious. i sort of disagree on how serious. i don t think after healthcare.gov, how in the world could anyone think we could do this it s not going to happen. i certainly agree with senator rubio not voting is a form of rejecting whatever is out there. i was in new hampshire. that s protest. that s free speech. not participating in the system and says something about our democracy and maybe our politicians that are running. but when no one is participating in the elections that s an act of democracy as well. panel, thank you. and straight ahead a hidden danger in the sky could terrorists bring down your plane by hacking into the the in-flight entertainment how do i get hotel deals nobody else gets?. i know a guy. price-line ne-go-ti-a-tor