Security Bigmouth Booted from Flight

Chris Roberts is a cyber researcher who claims he knows how to hack a United Airlines aircraft over the aircraft’s wireless. The tweet pictured below got him booted from a flight and his electronics seized by the Feds.

All of this happened on his way to RSA Conference in San Fran, which made for a far more interesting story than his allegations that aircraft are vulnerable to cyber attack. This of course made him a darling of cyber SJWs everywhere. From CRN here:

A security researcher due to speak at this year’s RSA Conference gave the event some free publicity when he was prevented from boarding his flight to get there following a tweet he made about hacking.
Chris Roberts, who is scheduled to present at RSA Conference on Thursday, was denied access to a United Airlines flight to San Francisco on Saturday night ahead of a presentation he is set to give at the IT security extravaganza on Thursday.
Roberts was barred access to the plane because of a tweet he sent days earlier on a previous United Airlines flight, using its on-board Wi-Fi, in which he suggested the airline’s on-board systems could be compromised.
Following that flight, the FBI detained Roberts – whose RSA Conference talk will, poignantly, touch on the vulnerabilities of transportation systems – before seizing a number of his electronic devices.
Roberts was able to catch a last-minute flight on another airline but his legal representatives, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF), branded United Airlines’ refusal to let him travel over the weekend “both disappointing and confusing”.
EEF said it has long been concerned that “knee-jerk” responses to legitimate researchers uncovering security flaws can create a “chilling effect” in the infosec community.

EFF is the Al Sharpton of the Cyber realm. There is no “Injustice” that its not willing to hijack for its own. Meanwhile Chris Roberts can keep peddling his F.U.D. and charging saps money who enjoy his snakeoil sales.