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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
by SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
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.
- Shivetya 8y agovalet 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?
- acct1771 8y agoYou put so much (undeserved) faith in the missile launching crowd...000000 comes to mind.
- stephengillie 8y agoOther industries have controls that prevent simple passwords from being used. Who audits the missile control groups?
- paulie_a 8y agoThe 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.