Reply to post: Re: No, he did not.

Feds: Bloke 'HACKED PLANE controls' – from his PASSENGER seat

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Re: No, he did not.

My impression is they're taking any flight info (maps, etc.) and passing it down a one way pipe.

If it is a wire, it is a two-way pipe - bugs and 'sploits aside: If nothing else some griefer could try her luck with a nice, fat, transient down the line and "see what happens".

Some people would think that connecting only the Tx-wires in an Ethernet cable is "one way", but then some of the driver chips are clever enough to be reconfigured for many, many, different modes to make dumb users with the wrong cabling happy.

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