I wonder just how airline personnel saw the tweet.
Looking over his shoulder physically at what he was typing, or does the wifi gear in the plane monitor the network traffic going through it ?
The story did not say.
Shades of parallel construction, no doubt. He was a known security researcher, after all.
Do you understand how Twitter works?
Using public or free WiFi = no expectation of privacy. ...I think he just did a talk show and explained it...and the FBI could have sent out an alert and was discovered on the flight... is what I read last week
He probably hashtagged the airline or sent it with an @... if you’re having a problem with a company or airline, you can usually get a quick reply from them by doing this. My daughter had her luggage lost and this is exactly what we did as it was taking far too long for her to be compensated.
Probably monitored on the ground, since everything on the large social media web sites is available to government snoops, and then they alerted the flight crew and the landing crew. And I guess it's better that we not know exactly how they monitor, since terrorists can set off explosives with cell phones. He was dumb not to take up the matter privately with the airline instead of "pointing and laughing" on the world wide web.