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Anyone else surprised to read that the fleet is all ex-Air China aircraft? That seems like a security hole.
by el_benhameen 8y ago
Anyone else surprised to read that the fleet is all ex-Air China aircraft? That seems like a security hole.
- gambiting 8y agoWhy? Does anyone think that those aircrafts would not have been stripped down and inspected in every possible way before going into service? Not to mention that they were purchased by a shell corporation to avoid any connection to the US government at the time of purchase.
- el_benhameen 8y agoWell sure. But Chinese intelligence is pretty ... intelligent. I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least somewhat aware of the origin of the shell corp. And the idea that one can strip a 737 down to a point that one can be certain that it contains no bugs or modifications seems unlikely to me. Doing so would certainly offset whatever discount you got by buying the 737 from a foreign source.
- lukewrites 8y agoMakes me think of Jiang Zemin's 767. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/01/19/china-finds-bugs-on-jet-equipped-in-us/65089140-2afe-42e0-a377-ec8d4e5034ef/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ee18a5a12b59 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/01/19/c...
- kirykl 8y agoThere's certainly precedent of US intelligence missing a potential device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
- bearcobra 8y agoSatellites probably make it pretty easy to spot the runways and track the flights anyway