[jeroenhd]

I refuse to believe that anything important for flying the plane is actually hooked up to the system providing Netflix to passengers.

People do get nervous, and in theory you could probably break some kind of informational system utility if you kernel panic the box that booms up to the satellite receiver, but unless you're trying to get root on the plane's routers I don't believe there's a need to feel brave.

The braver part is publishing the results of this stuff online under your own name.

[notahacker]

yeah, you're not interfering with anything flying the plane through the IFE system, and it won't be the same bandwidth they use for comms either (there might be some semi-sensitive passenger information stored on the in-flight server, but entirely different techniques would be needed to bypass whatever security that's wrapped in).

But "hacking" on an aircraft isn't going to be looked on particularly sympathetically by courts

[chrisbrandow]

I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation.

But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise to “refuse” to believe that any computer/software system could be used in dangerously absurd ways even accidentally.