Todd Underwood, who works for Renesys, writes about his experience of monitoring his Germany/US flight via the wifi connection onboard that very flight. It's kind of geeky, but an interesting read.
What I found rather freaky was this comment a little later after Todd's post, where someone supposedly used the IP address for the plane and... well you can read for yourself...
"Oh this is so cool. I just tried to telnet to 83.210.35.2 and I get a prompt like this:
RR Port Engine 2 - NCC Rev 2.4
==============================
(S)tatus
(P)urge fuel
(R)eset
(U)pgrade firmware*
Option: _
* FAA Warning: Plane must be grounded, electronic devices switched off and seatbacks upright before this option is used.
Anybody knows what this is?
Posted by: lostgweilo April 28, 2006 10:35 PM "
Someone crank up the security a bit, please...
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