[Flipside]

I wouldn't trust something like that until they've got a bit more of Quantum Computing under their belt and are running 100% secure optical networks.

[Kosh]

Didn't the F22 have a wi-fi accesspoint built into it? (or so says wikipedia anyway)

[Liberator]

So why didn't they build a physically separate network for the passengers using a separate transceiver?

If there's no physical connection and no wifi connection, how exactly would you hack the flight controls?

[Dilmah G]

Didn't the F22 have a wi-fi accesspoint built into it? (or so says wikipedia anyway)

Would that be for some kind of wireless helmet/flight input? I just can't imagine an SU-27 flying circles two thousand feet below an F-22 attempting to gain a high-speed wi fi link

[Turambar]

ARRH

[Snagger]

So why didn't they build a physically separate network for the passengers using a separate transceiver?

If there's no physical connection and no wifi connection, how exactly would you hack the flight controls?

In what way would passenger systems need to be linked to essential flight systems?  I can't imagine any overlaps, except for  power supplies, and Ican't imagine many flight systems needing amny trancievers that would be compatible with passenger or other PC type systems, let alone be sharing them.

The system is probably fine, but since it's a new scheme IALPA and its pilot members are trying to ensure that the system is rigourously tested. That suits me fine.  I still think that Airbus' involvement is simply corporate tactics to delay the 787 and cause more project costs to Boeing, also causing a loss of public confidence in it to boost Airbus sales as a replacement for cancelled orders. 

[Mars]

Honestly, if you were a terrorist organization, and there was a choice between sending an extremely skilled, talented, one of a kind hacker who, through some stroke of pure magical skill, managed to hack into the control systems of the aircraft, and a grunt with a pound of plastic explosives . . .

[Rhymes]

You'd probably send a grunt. DUH.  Mars is right.  Nobody in their right mind would send a hacker skilled enough to take control of the plane he's flying in and have him blow it up.  That just reeks of so many levels of stupid it's not fit to be described on HLP.

[The E]

You are missing something. Terrorists may have different ideas of "valuable".  Remember that the 9/11 people were, by all accounts, rather smart young men, who nonetheless chose to die for their cause. And I would guess that a piece of computing equipment is easier to smuggle aboard than a weapon, and its operation easier concealed than a "conventional" hijacking.

[Flipside]

It's a Wifi connection, if it can reach the Internet, the Internet can reach it. You don't need a skilled hacker, all you need is someone on the plane with a laptop that is connected to the planes network. The Hacker themselves could be anywhere.