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During an international Air Canada flight, they had USB ports right beside the touch screen seat back monitors. I thought I'd try plugging my remote mouse into

During an international Air Canada flight, they had USB ports right beside the touch screen seat back monitors. I thought I'd try plugging my remote mouse into it. Worked perfectly fine, a mouse pointer showed up and I could use it fine. I was wondering what I could do with a keyboard, or a nicely crafted USB stick. The interface seems to be an HTML/JS interface, so I'm not sure what OS it was running on. The mouse pointer was not a Windows default so it was probably Linux. I wonder if I could have switched terminals if I had my keyboard. Also, if I had my keyboard I'd be too scared to try.

kenrikm 12y ago
Some Delta planes and I think all Virgin planes that have that inflight infotainment system run on a flavor of linux with a ton of plugins and insecure SSH enabled by default. Ask me how I know.
- dandruffhead 12y ago
  How?
xerophtye 12y ago
I remember once the screen in front of me crashed and clearly booted up some flavour of linux. (it even displayed the penguin!) Oh and i think it did end up on a console... though there were no USB ports visible at the time
- contingencies 12y ago
  I've seen this too.
blueskin_ 12y ago
Flew on a 787 recently, they had a problem with the IFE system and rebooted it; it's Linux. Recognised the default X11 cursor straight away and was even able to move it around with my touchscreen before it disappeared and their UI came up. That plane had a USB port by each screen too; I didn't have any peripherals to test if it interfaced though.
kalleboo 12y ago
Singapore Airlines IFE rebooting the Linux kernel https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197800/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197800/ Running StarOffice https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197320 https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197320 Thai Airways entertainment system rebooting Linux (with the penguin logo visible) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/3911989854/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/3911989854/

kenrikm 12y ago

Some Delta planes and I think all Virgin planes that have that inflight infotainment system run on a flavor of linux with a ton of plugins and insecure SSH enabled by default. Ask me how I know.

dandruffhead 12y ago
How?

xerophtye 12y ago

I remember once the screen in front of me crashed and clearly booted up some flavour of linux. (it even displayed the penguin!) Oh and i think it did end up on a console... though there were no USB ports visible at the time

contingencies 12y ago
I've seen this too.

blueskin_ 12y ago

Flew on a 787 recently, they had a problem with the IFE system and rebooted it; it's Linux. Recognised the default X11 cursor straight away and was even able to move it around with my touchscreen before it disappeared and their UI came up. That plane had a USB port by each screen too; I didn't have any peripherals to test if it interfaced though.

kalleboo 12y ago

Singapore Airlines IFE rebooting the Linux kernel https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197800/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197800/ Running StarOffice https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197320 https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2473197320 Thai Airways entertainment system rebooting Linux (with the penguin logo visible) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/3911989854/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/3911989854/