Backdoor Software Being Developed to Regain Control of Hijacked Aircra ft

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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


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