Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question

Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by cookingrobot on Sunday August 12, 2018 @03:58AM (#17743435)

Or let air traffic control diasable any plane while it’s taxiing.

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by Twisell on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:20AM (#17743492)

I’m not sure having a remote control kill switch on an airplane is the kind of backdoor that improve security (if any backdoor can, which I’d doubt).

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by speedplane on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:24AM (#17743502)

The current "kill switch" technology for rouge airplanes is an F-18 with a few Sidewinders.

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by iforgotpassword on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:43AM (#17743547)

Sounds a lot safer to me and sufficient as well.

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by bufferoverflow on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:06AM (#17743460)

That's dangerous. Imagine this remote control gets hacked and planes start getting disabled in mid air, or even while trying to take off.

An hard to copy ignition key makes a lot more sense.

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