If we put aside the probable and obvious cause for disrupting the air traffic -
namely, introduction of the permanent emergency state (in the future 2-3% of all
flights may be affected - small price for maintaining the power), I wonder what are
the logistics of injecting false information into the snooping systems.
Most of those are automated and prone to false alarms.
Few ideas:
- Orchestrated credit card purchases under proper "suspicious" conditions ("travelling
without husband" - check today's news).
- No shows at US-bound flights. Extremely efficient use of economy class fare.
- Orchestrated telephone conversations using codewords ("thw worm will meet the apple
on monday")
- Ordering tens of almanacs, etc.
Some simple scanning around these ports will reveal what is effective and what is not.
Bearing in mind that basic TCP/IP protocols, servers and clients, after years of
fixing, are still vulnerable to new attacs I doubt that pinheads on the TLA payrolls
will be able to fix theirs.
The beauty of these attacks is that they can be launched by any entity - from ragheads
to governments, and next to impossible to trace if done properly.
