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Backdoor Software Being Developed to Regain Control of Hijacked Aircra ft
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:34:37 GMT
The last sentence in this snippet is perhaps the most interesting. What about a hacker on the ground? [snip] Some 30 European businesses and research institutes are working to create software that would make it possible from a distance to regain control of an aircraft from hijackers, according to the German news magazine. The system "which could only be controlled from the ground would conduct the aircraft posing a problem to the nearest airport whether it liked it or not," according to extracts from next Monday's Der Spiegel released Saturday. "A hijacker would have no chance of reaching his goal," it said. The project costs 36 million euros (45 million dollars), of which the European Commission is contributing 19.5 million euros, and involves aircraft maker Airbus, electronics giant Siemens and the Technical University of Munich. The first results should be presented in Britain in October, the magazine said. The system would be designed in such a way that even a computer hacker on board could not get round it. [snip] More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060722/tc_afp/germanyeuunrest - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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