[question]Remote Control An Airliner talk cancelled

[braydawg]

How To Remote Control An Airliner: Security Flaws in Avionics was cancelled. I checked the CD distributed with the swag bag and found no slides for this talk. Will these slides be released? I think I found out why Sebastian Westerhold was unable to attend his own talk... is this open for discussion or will these slides never be released? Any info would be appreciated.

Thank you;

Bdawg.

[EDIT 08092016]
This does not really belong here. If a mod would kindly move me to the appropriate thread it would be much appreciated.
Bdawg.
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[phiber]

Why was Sebastian unable to attend his talk?

[TheCotMan]

I've not yet found any official public comment on it, but assuming it is the same talk, here are tweets of people asking about it:

https://twitter.com/admford/status/761681321617870848
https://twitter.com/MilesApartJF/sta...81030071713792
https://twitter.com/mmaunder/status/762339788808531968
https://twitter.com/iblametom/status/761724606608711680

They may get an answer, so checking those tweets and replies occasionally might be useful.

Here is a tweet where someone claimed to know a likely answer:
https://twitter.com/rabid_weasel/sta...22505977634817

And this person tweeted a link to a news story alleging it may be related :
https://twitter.com/dyn___/status/761716986464186368
But the date on that news story: 5:39 PM. EDT March 31, 2016
Not recent.

[braydawg]

I've not yet found any official public comment on it, but assuming it is the same talk, here are tweets of people asking about it:

https://twitter.com/admford/status/761681321617870848
https://twitter.com/MilesApartJF/sta...81030071713792
https://twitter.com/mmaunder/status/762339788808531968
https://twitter.com/iblametom/status/761724606608711680

They may get an answer, so checking those tweets and replies occasionally might be useful.

Here is a tweet where someone claimed to know a likely answer:
https://twitter.com/rabid_weasel/sta...22505977634817

And this person tweeted a link to a news story alleging it may be related :
https://twitter.com/dyn___/status/761716986464186368
But the date on that news story: 5:39 PM. EDT March 31, 2016
Not recent.

As stated in the links above it would appear Sebastian is in some legal trouble. Impersonating an officer in Arkansas is a class D felony and contributing to the delinquincy of minor is a class A misdemeanor. The misdemeanor charge is not too serious but a minor felony is a serious charge even if a minor one. It could be that, pending prosecution, he may not be able to leave the state due to the nature of the charges against him.

To the point at hand; there is still no access to his talks as far as I know. As far as I know one must submit a paper to defcon for the talk. If that is true then there should be some sort of record or even a copy of his talk/whitepaper somewhere.