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Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone

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Apr 11, 2013

Until today, hacking and hijacking planes by pressing a few buttons on an Android mobile app has been the stuff of over-the-top blockbuster movies, but the talk that security researcher and commercial airplane pilot Hugo Teso delivered today at the Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam has brought it crashingly into the realm of reality and has given us one more thing to worry about and fear.

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