The allegations in the Telegraph article seem pretty dubious. It's based on one odd looking bloke saying he could do it. No other evidence. If it was real I presume some security guy would offer to take reports on a plane and demo it or similar but no. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/hacker-chr...
They are. The guy is a poser, pure and simple. But that poser was able to access some systems by plugging in to a box under his chair that should have been tamper proof, he was able to get a lot further than he should have once he gained access to the socket underneath. And further digging revealed that there are in fact some (presumably one-way) connections between those systems and the more important bits of the aircraft. All in all, in spite of the dubious source and the questionable character of the guy that did this fairly surprising (to me).
If he had not made these stupid claims it would not have made me feel any better about all this.
If he had not made these stupid claims it would not have made me feel any better about all this.