FBI trying to criminalize white hat hacker

FBI trying to criminalize white hat hacker who exposed security flaw that says ANY commercial airline can be hijacked electronically
http://www.naturalnews.com/049850_hacking_airplanes_terror_threat.html

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"The federal government says it isn't possible and there is nothing to worry about, but the FBI is nevertheless attempting to punish someone for doing what they have said can't be done: hack into the Wi-Fi of a commercial airliner in flight.
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Wired reports that after getting off a flight in Syracuse, New York, in February, Roberts told the FBI that "he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane's Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight." In addition, Roberts told the FBI he "was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course," according to a federal court document[PDF] filed in April."

Even when you have found a security hole, did no harm and reported it (white hat) you get attacked by the system. You want to help and what you get in return is an attack of hate and maybe locked away for many years. This world is very fucked up.

But why is the airplane company so stupid to connect the guest wifi with the control system of the plane? Those two system should be separate. This is the same kind of stupidity to put a nuclear plant or a refinery control system only behind a firewall to the rest of the internet.