At 09:32 PM 10/31/02 -0800, Tim May wrote:
...
If the attackers/hijackers cannot get into the cockpit and gain control
of the plane, then the most they can do with disabling/lethal/nerve
gases is to cause the plane to essentially crash randomly...which kills
a few hundred people, but probably
On Saturday 02 November 2002 12:09, Adam Shostack wrote:
An interesting tidbit in the September Information Security Bulletin
is the claim from MessageLabs that only .005% of the mail they saw in
2002 is encrypted, up from .003% in 2000.
... Last month, about
5% of my email was sent PGP
At 12:35 PM -0800 11/1/02, John Kelsey wrote:
At 09:32 PM 10/31/02 -0800, Tim May wrote:
...
If the attackers/hijackers cannot get into the cockpit and gain control
of the plane, then the most they can do with disabling/lethal/nerve
gases is to cause the plane to essentially crash randomly...which
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.
At 10:49 AM 11/2/02 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
(A number of years ago, there was a case where a
pilot, presumably asleep, flew right past Los Angles, over the Pacific
ocean, and crashed. ATC was very concerned, but couldn't do anything
to
wake the pilot.)
Around a year ago a small private jet
building I inspect, my own work not excepted. You have to battle to get
contractors to do it right. And owners to pay for quality work and
maintenance
rather than wait for vicitms and insurance companies to pay the tithe of
negligence.
This is the same problem as with other expenses without
Lack of asbestos fireproofing (FP) on structural steel could have played a
role in the WTC collapse but the source of that argument, proponents of Junk
Science and Herbert Levine, are on shaky ground. I've responded to their WTC
asbestos-lack argument elsewhere, my main point being that asbestos
