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[ PRIVACY Forum ] A phone app that threatens airline security?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Oct 3 17:59:16 2010
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A phone app that threatens airline security?
http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg04331.html
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http://bit.ly/971NND (NDTV)
"London: A cheap mobile phone application that can track the
precise location of passenger aircraft in the sky can be a serious
terrorist threat, security experts have claimed and called for its
immediate ban."
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And the reason that ADS-B transmissions aren't protected by strong
encryption is ... uh ...
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