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Crashing a flight's in-flight entertainment system, on purpose
For all you armchair terrorists, here's a handy do-it-yourself guide to crashing the back-of-seat entertainment system. The upside is that this system is not in any way connected to flight navigational controls. The probable downside is that 400 passengers will be quite angry with you.But mainly, this just shows you software, even for the aviation industry, is far from being fail-safe or idiot-proof. Anyways, here's the cheat-sheet.
1. Open up the Tetris knockoff game.
2. Highlight the preferences option where you can select how many blocks to see ahead.
3. Change this number to five using your phone numpad.
4. Proceed to hit + on the screen, increasing this one by one to 127.
5. This is a crucial number (the max value that can be stored using 1 byte of memory). So savor this moment.
6. Hit + again.
7. Angry passengers.
[Via CSO Security and Risk]
Filed under: Airlines
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
teenagertc Oct 19th 2008 10:32PM
Couldn't you conceivably get arrested, or even worse, sued by the airline for disorderly conduct, as well as knowingly tampering with private property? Please don't do this to anyone. I would hate to be on a long flight and without entertainment.
Stijn Oct 20th 2008 3:39AM
I'm not sure it would be illegal, because if you were just trying to make sure you could beat the game by raising the amount of future blocks shown, you were just playing the game.
And coincidently you raised it above 127.
It could happen to anyone.
But then again, it would be much appreciated if no one did this intentionally, because 10 hour flights are bad enough with entertainment, imagine them without.
LadyExpat Oct 20th 2008 5:09AM
Why would you even post this here? I think air travel can be challenging enough without some idiot reading this and trying it out on their next flight "just for fun."