A security researcher told the FBI in February he was able to commandeer a plane's control system mid-flight, according to a warrant application filed last month. The researcher, Chris Roberts, was banned from all United Airlines flights in April after tweeting a joke about exploiting flight control vulnerabilities while on a plane, Wired reports. After the plane landed in Syracuse, New York, FBI agents escorted Roberts off the flight and confiscated several of his electronics, including a MacBook Pro and several thumb drives. According to Wired, they told Roberts a warrant to search the devices was pending, and they filed a warrant application two days later. A Canadian media outlet published the application yesterday.
Roberts had...
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