Anons, reading
reminded me of the story on justice.gov about Panasonic Avionics Corporation (pic related). When you look into the details, you see that one of their sales agents was awarded something like $184 million through offshore bank accounts. There was also a "government official" that received $875,000 for a "consulting" job where they did nothing.
Just FYI, it's pretty clear that these "consulting" gigs are where politicians get their kickbacks. These and other positions, where they're hired yet have almost zero experience–that's a big part of how they're paid off.
Anyway, consider the underlying possibilities of this: shady deals going on to ensure that certain Inflight Entertainment Systems get onto airplanes. No big deal, right? Wrong.
The other day, there was a brief drop regarding some of the NSA's rumored arsenal:
https://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/nsas-ant-division-catalog-of-exploits-for-nearly-every-major-software-hardware-firmware/
Among some of the items, you see USB cables that can send radio signals, a tool that can mimic a cell-phone tower, and much, much more. So just what could you load into one of those systems? Could you trigger it to hijack the plane's systems? Could you send out a signal to an ied located in the cargo bay?
It's an awful lot of money for a bunch of entertainment systems going into airplanes, and a lot of shady dealings involving a state-owned airline (I think Emirates airlines, but there are others that had dealings), some government official (I think from Qatar), a global corporation, offshore banking, et. al.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/panasonic-avionics-corporation-agrees-pay-137-million-resolve-foreign-corrupt-practices-act
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1058471/download