On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, John Kelsey wrote: > Hmmm. I agree, but if the attackers chose the right time (while the > plane's on autopilot) to release the gas or whatever, they might have an > hour or two to get through the cockpit door, with no resistance at all from > the now-dead passengers or crew. Securing a cockpit door in those
While we're discussing irrelevant scenarios, there's a recent trend in avionics buses to off the shelf networking protocols and buses. I much doubt the traffic is encrypted and/or authenticated, so a guy who could blow a small hole through the hull, stick a GPS antenna and/or a camera out of it, and splice into the avionics control bus with a laptop could fly around a bit. Disclaimer: this is just a funky irrelevant scenario, and I agree that the next time it's going to be something different, while everybody is staring hypnotized at flight security.
