{"id":110084,"date":"2015-04-20T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=110084"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:03:16","slug":"airline-bans-passenger-after-joke-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/airline-bans-passenger-after-joke-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline bans passenger after ‘joke tweet’"},"content":{"rendered":"
United Airlines banned a security researcher from a flight after he tweeted that he might be able to hack the aircraft’s systems.<\/p>\n
Chris Roberts was due to fly from Colorado to San Francisco to talk at a major security conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Earlier, he tweeted he thought he could deploy the oxygen masks on board.<\/p>\n
Despite the ban, United said: “We are confident our flight control systems could not be accessed through techniques [Mr Roberts] described.”<\/p>\n
Engine control<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Roberts is the founder of cybersecurity firm, One World Labs that tries to find vulnerabilities in IT systems and alert companies to them before they are exploited by criminals.<\/p>\n Last Wednesday, Mr Roberts was removed from another United flight by the FBI who took his laptop away, and questioned him for four hours.<\/p>\n