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I personally would volunteer to be on one of the teams in another van with directional antennas to triangulate your transmissions and shut down you ASAP. The f

I personally would volunteer to be on one of the teams in another van with directional antennas to triangulate your transmissions and shut down you ASAP. The fact that no one has ever truly tried that sort of poisoning of radio calls is more due to the tower and aircraft having a very well defined set of calls, so that the likelihood of false transmissions being able to cause havoc is minimized already. I agree with another commenter that aviation radio systems should be the simplest, most reliable systems possible, and have that layer of communication depend on proper radio call discipline and no more.

LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
My question was of theoretical nature, i'm not up to mischief of that sort. Though i'm often thinking about the vulnerabilities of our technological society, and the (false) assumptions we have about that. Compare it with lock picking. Most are easily bumped, or not even bothering with that, the door kicked down, some window used instead, and so on. Now, when someone kicks your door down, that's getting noticed, sooner or later. But what about cheap SBCs dropped somewhere with a battery and some custom periphery working as a relay? Of course the SUVs could find that. After the fact.
- sfifs 7y ago
  Pulling these kinds of attacks - especially undetected - requires a certain level of intellect and education that should also be unaffected by things like substance abuse that hamper systematic planning. People with that level of capability almost always manage to create sufficiently comfortable life situations for themselves that they they lack motivation to do so. Problems happen when either (1) technology to do harm becomes commoditized and freely available so less capable people can acquire and use (eg. Easy conversion of semi automatic to automatics, commoditized hacks for script kiddies) or (2) capable people feel they're been sufficiently wronged that they don't care about the consequences of revenge (pretty much all the really big headline terrorist actions) Most intelligence activity on prevention focuses on (2) since pulling off such actions generally requires the capable planners to coordinate with less capable "feet on the ground" who can give things away. However capable people acting alone which happens occasionally is pretty much impossible to stop (Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kazynski, Kaloyev)

LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago

My question was of theoretical nature, i'm not up to mischief of that sort. Though i'm often thinking about the vulnerabilities of our technological society, and the (false) assumptions we have about that. Compare it with lock picking. Most are easily bumped, or not even bothering with that, the door kicked down, some window used instead, and so on. Now, when someone kicks your door down, that's getting noticed, sooner or later. But what about cheap SBCs dropped somewhere with a battery and some custom periphery working as a relay? Of course the SUVs could find that. After the fact.

sfifs 7y ago
Pulling these kinds of attacks - especially undetected - requires a certain level of intellect and education that should also be unaffected by things like substance abuse that hamper systematic planning. People with that level of capability almost always manage to create sufficiently comfortable life situations for themselves that they they lack motivation to do so. Problems happen when either (1) technology to do harm becomes commoditized and freely available so less capable people can acquire and use (eg. Easy conversion of semi automatic to automatics, commoditized hacks for script kiddies) or (2) capable people feel they're been sufficiently wronged that they don't care about the consequences of revenge (pretty much all the really big headline terrorist actions) Most intelligence activity on prevention focuses on (2) since pulling off such actions generally requires the capable planners to coordinate with less capable "feet on the ground" who can give things away. However capable people acting alone which happens occasionally is pretty much impossible to stop (Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kazynski, Kaloyev)