[42142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Thu Sep 13 18:13:46 2001
From: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:05:13 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <NCBBJAOJCKNGDPGBBBKOOEHOGIAA.lachisho@tnc.com>; from lachisho@tnc.com on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:11:15PM -0600
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:11:15PM -0600, Leigh Anne Chisholm wrote:
>
> 2. What's the point of having transponder codes for hijacking if they're so
> well published everyone is aware of them? The purpose of the codes was so
> that the pilot could communicate this information without the hijacker
> becoming aware of what was happening. I have always REALLY DISLIKED the now
> common practice of advertising this information. You're taking away one of
> the pilot's best tools...
Then you would probably consider it a good thing that the code he gave is
not, in fact, the transponder code for hijacking. And no, I'm not going to
detail what the correct one is. Go ask a pilot (such as the one living in
my house), if you want to know. Pretty much all of them know it; even those
who don't fly planes one could reasonably hijack.
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