BullShit (Score 1)

"Teso misused the ADS-B to select targets..." Select targets? There is no "select target" in commercial aviation. Some ( very few at this time ) aircraft can receive ADS-B and TIS broadcasts to display traffic, the traffic will only show as icons on a display for the pilot to interpret. The aircraft will not respond AT ALL to other traffic.... If the aircraft has TCAS II with RA it will do even less because the false ADS-B broadcast will not pass a sanity check when the TCAS issues capability inquiry's to the ICAO address your spoofing. TCAS will only issue RA's when aircraft are verified on a number of levels, the basics being distance and direction and altitude.... Distance measured by the response time of the ModeS inquiry... and the direction measured by a four pole directional antenna....You can't spoof tdoa information at the receiver. "...and the ACARS to gather information about the onboard computer as well as to exploit its vulnerabilities..." ACARS has the basic ability to send messages/flight plans etc to the aircraft via a DataManagementUnit and then on to the Flight Management System.... It does not control the aircraft.... It can upload a flight plan in some instances and give the pilot the option of using that plan.. but has no data path to the autopilot. Even saying "THE onboard computer" shows that this guy is 100% uneducated about aircraft. And for those of you worried. ACARS is being replaced in the next 5-10 years with VDL, which will enable more ground/aircraft integration and control.. but it's encrypted... And autopilot's mostly use 8086... There are no data links, most of the interconnects, inputs and outputs are still analog... you have to read error codes in hex. This guy is 100% full of **** I'm an avionics manager and I approved this message.