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FBI employees detained American Chris Roberts – expert on digital security, which reportedly succeeded right in in flight to crack the aircraft control system.
A man was heading for United Airlines to San Francisco from Colorado to attend a conference. Being on Boru, a digital security expert posted on a social network “Twitter” that can easily hack the on-board computer aircraft, displaying their own messages on electronic displays and having falsely informed passengers about the danger in flight.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which seems to be carefully monitors the messages of Americans in social networks, in the shortest possible time the term detained Roberts after landing and questioned him in for four hours. Documents, laptop were seized from a specialist, smartphone, other electronics. In this case, a search warrant was not presented to the suspect. According to the FBI, the reason for the detention of Chris was precisely his threats on the Internet hack into an airplane computer. American government like it’s easy to guess would not allow risking the lives of a hundred fifty passengers.
According to agent Mike Hurley, Roberts has surprisingly already managed to in flight connect to the airplane system and make some changes. The hacker decided not to trade for trifles and managed, using your laptop, change the engine algorithm the plane. The specialist admitted that for about fifteen times hacked aircraft computers, but now it ruined ambition, forcing to share their achievements with subscribers on Twitter.
Chris Roberts expected to suffer for his actions court-determined punishment. This was to be expected, considering how much the American intelligence agencies are striving in every way to deal with terrorism. The lawyer of the detainee claims that he decided hack planes for educational purposes only, not intending to harm anyone.
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