Airplane Hacking Edition

On software, flying, and building a culture of security

Noah here. An ongoing theme in action movies and thrillers is someone hacking a plane. Sometimes, it comes from the seatback entertainment and sometimes elsewhere, but it’s a reasonably regular theme across the genre. 

The question, of course, is whether any of it is possible. Security specialist/hacker Ken Munro set out to answer that question. The chal…