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Apr 20, 2015 | 3:06 am

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Originally Posted by ScottC

How so? If someone on my plane makes claims that they can hack my plane and trigger systems, I don't want them flying with me. Let them take a bus.

There are better ways to get the attention of the aviation industry. Tweeting dumb things is not one of them.

Ability/inability to do XYZ is not the same as willingness to do XYZ.

UA and the FBI again overreacted by assuming that exchanges/communications about a hypothetical or realistic possibility to do XYZ is is the same thing as a real intent to do XYZ. It takes a paranoid and/or petty, little Napolelon type to conflate, or pretend to conflate, capability with intent.

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