Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question

Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by SmellyGeekBoy on Sunday August 12, 2018 @05:04AM (#17743610)

Airline engineering employees need to power on planes, fire up various systems to test, and even move them around. It's absolutely routine. All the reports I've seen seem to suggest that this was one of those employees. So it seems reasonable to assume that he would have had the PIN or "key" or whatever in this case anyway.

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by Shivetya on Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:12AM (#17744434)

valet mode for aircraft. of course we can never eliminate the risk but perhaps a two key mode similar to launch controls for missiles to do anything with a plane other than low power movement?

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by acct1771 on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:11PM (#17744985)

You put so much (undeserved) faith in the missile launching crowd...000000 comes to mind.

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by stephengillie on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:19PM (#17746213)

Other industries have controls that prevent simple passwords from being used. Who audits the missile control groups?

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Re:Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Securit... by paulie_a on Sunday August 12, 2018 @08:58PM (#17747373)

The all zero thing goes back a while when someone in the military was told to put launch codes in and defiantly made them 0. Because God forbid there should be any protection on the most deadly device ever created by man.

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