'Big Brother' vs. The Truth? Tech expert revealed air safety flaws, detained by FBI
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One of the world’s foremost experts on counter-threat intelligence within the cybersecurity industry, who blew the whistle on vulnerabilities in airplane technology systems in a series of recent Fox News reports, has become the target of an FBI investigation himself.
Chris Roberts of the Colorado-based One World Labs, a security intelligence firm that identifies risks before they're exploited, said two FBI agents and two uniformed police officers pulled him off a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial flight Wednesday night just after it landed in Syracuse, and spent the next four hours questioning him about cyberhacking of planes.
The FBI interrogation came just hours after Fox News published a report on Roberts’ research, in which he said: “We can still take planes out of the sky thanks to the flaws in the in-flight entertainment systems. Quite simply put, we can theorize on how to turn the engines off at 35,000 feet and not have any of those damn flashing lights go off in the cockpit.”
FBI agents confiscated Roberts' company-owned laptop, demanding he give them access, but after consulting with his CEO, told them they would need a warrant. They still haven't presented one, but they haven't returned the laptop or thumb drives and other electronic equipment they took from him.
A General Accounting Office report backed Roberts' findings late yesterday. The irony is it was the FBI that requested Roberts' company to look into in-flight vulnerabilities of U.S. airliners, but then another faction within the FBI pulls this crap. Not only is 'Big Brother watching,' but Big Brother is clumsy, too.
