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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...aviation security. Much of it you've all heard before, but there are some new bits: Larry Tortorich, a TSA training officer and former representative to the Joint Terrorism Task Force who retired in 2006, also says he saw problems from the inside. "There was a facade of security. There were numerous security flaws and vulnerabilities I...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Airline Security

2008-07-21 05:53:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...aviation security measures" by Mark Stewart and John Mueller, is excellent reading: The United States Office of Management and Budget has recommended the use of cost-benefit assessment for all proposed federal regulations. Since 9/11 government agencies in Australia, United States, Canada, Europe and elsewhere have devoted much effort and...
 
Tags: cost-effective, cost-effective security measure, cost, cost-effective measure, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, additional cost, cost-benefit assessment, benefit
 
 
 
 
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Hacking the Boeing 787

2008-01-07 12:38:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Aviation Administration, the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aeroplane may have a serious security vulnerability in its on-board computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane's control systems More press If this is true, this is a very serious security vulnerability. And it's not just terrorists trying to control the airplane,...
 
Tags: data, airplane data buses, on-board computer networks, networks, systems, control systems, communication systems, control, aircraft data buses
 
 
 
 
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FAA Badges Missing

2008-03-11 11:14:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Aviation Administration safety inspector badges have been stolen or lost in the past five years. The credentials are one of the few forms of identification that give complete and unfettered access to airport facilities, including the cockpits of planes in flight The FAA badge is probably of all the badges just as dangerous if not more so than...
 
Tags: faa badge, badge, person free access, access, airport, airport facilities, badges, airline, commercial pilot
 
 
 
 
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JetBlue Buys Airfone's Network

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2008-06-08 21:47:04 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...aviation") customers. JetBlue's LiveTV won the smaller of two licenses (1 MHz); AirCell won the 3 MHz auction. AirCell built its own network (an expansion of previous general aviation service), and is launching very shortly with Virgin America and America Airlines Ostensibly this purchase allows JetBlue a faster and simpler path into...
 
Tags: network, airfone, jetblue, ancient airfone network, verizon, verizon notes, auction, auction results, assume verizon airfone
 
 
 
 
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Boeing Dreamliner could be vulnerable to hackers

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8470a00 in Network World on Security
 
The electronics of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet could be vulnerable to hackers due to the way critical flight systems are linked with those used by passengers, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has warned
 
Tags: federal aviation administration, critical flight systems, dreamliner jet, hackers due, vulnerable, passengers, electronics
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Excellent essay from The New York Times : In the end, I'm not sure which is more troubling, the inanity of the existing regulations, or the average American's acceptance of them and willingness to be humiliated. These wasteful and tedious protocols have solidified into what appears to be indefinite policy, with little or no opposition. There...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public
 
 
 
 
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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...aviation and passenger rail, and come to some interesting conclusions From the "Executive Summary": The analytic results indicated that the most influential factors determining the success or failure of a terrorist attack are those that occur in the pre-execution phases. While safeguards and controls at airports and rail stations are...
 
Tags: vigilant security services, vigilant, recent terrorist plots, terrorist plots, information fits, information, intelligence information, security services, law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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European Commission Moves Forward on In-Flight Mobile Plan

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2008-04-07 12:21:42 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Aviation Safety Agency across the EU. The EC took this as an opportunity for push for pan-European telecom rules to avoid having to keep defining rules that have to be adopted across all member nations for pan-European services, like this and mobile satellite operation The very pro-consumer Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, who already...
 
Tags: mhz, mhz band, mhz frequencies, mhz bands, pan-european telecom rules, rules, in-flight service, service, ground stations
 
 
 
 
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Stealth Fighter Security 'May Have Been Compromised'

2008-05-01 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Defense Department hasn't kept close enough watch over the contractors working on its most important aircraft program, the Joint Strike Fighter. And as a result, "the advanced aviation and weapons technology for the JSF program may have been compromised," the Department of Defense's Inspector General notes in a newly-unearthed report
 
Tags: defense, defense department, department, joint strike fighter, weapons technology, aircraft program, jsf program, contractors, report