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It takes just 1 person who knows a bit about radio and aviation and maybe $1000-$2000 worth of hardware to pull off such an attack. And we know that terror orga
by H8crilA 3y ago
It takes just 1 person who knows a bit about radio and aviation and maybe $1000-$2000 worth of hardware to pull off such an attack. And we know that terror organisations go to much further lengths to make it to the press headlines.
- psunavy03 3y agoIf a terror organization wanted to do that, they'd probably end up using rifles or missiles. https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- H8crilA 3y agoRifles do not reach airplanes, and SAM systems are quite tightly controlled. For example Hamas is unable to take out even any of the slow piston engine Israeli surveillance drones. They even have a name for them in Arabic, you can hear the sound of the drone in almost any footage from Gaza.
- psunavy03 3y agoRifles can reach airplanes on the ground just fine, MANPADs have a habit of popping up in inconvenient third-world conflicts, and this whole idea that we need to have secure ATC comms and need to rewire our navigation system is still an absurdity. Every modern airliner has dual-redundant or better GPS-aided inertial navigation systems, and every professional pilot is trained on procedures for flying in the airspace system after losing all their (multiple) radios. This is literally not a risk worth spending the millions/billions it would cost to mitigate, any more than Joe Average Internet User needs to hire a professional cybersecurity firm to secure his home Wi-Fi router.