This is tangentially addressed in one of my favorite articles of all time, talking about the importance of strong encryption without backdoors: https://medium.c

This is tangentially addressed in one of my favorite articles of all time, talking about the importance of strong encryption without backdoors: https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177a406c775 https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177... The point being, there is no perfect trade off, but that this one is much better than the alternative. In this case, I think most airlines have moved to the incrementally better trade off of ensuring at least two people in the cockpit at all times.