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]