Security pro pulled off flight by FBI after light-hearted tweet

Really, FBI, I know you’re under heavy criticism and all, but you need to lighten up sometimes.

Within 5 minutes of security expert Chris Roberts (@sidragon1) lightheartedly tweeting on a plane:

Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? 🙂

Rafał Łoś (@RafalLos) jokingly responded:

…aaaaaand you’re in jail. 🙂

Nine hours later, we learned that Rafal Los’s prediction was amazingly close to what happened, as Chris tweeted:

and you are right….. 4 hours of discussions and I now no longer have any electronics

Bye bye electronics, all encrypted….and all now in custody/seized pic.twitter.com/a5o6rYTbZ0 — Chris Roberts (@Sidragon1) April 16, 2015

Not surprisingly, Chris declined to provide his decryption keys. As of this morning, he is still without his electronics and the feds have yet to provide a warrant.

Fox News has a write-up on the incident, here.