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More on Airplane Seat Cameras

2008-06-04 12:05:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...airplane-seat camera system that tries to detect terrorists before they leap up and do whatever they were planning on doing. Amazingly enough, the EU is " testing " this system: Each camera tracks passengers' facial expressions, with the footage then analysed by software to detect developing terrorist activity or potential air rage. Six...
 
Tags: cameras, seat, airplane-seat camera system, system, detect, detect terrorists, people, terrorists, saves people
 
 
 
 
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Hacking the Boeing 787

2008-01-07 12:38:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...airplane, but the more common software flaw that causes some unforeseen interaction with something else and cascades into a bigger problem. However, the FAA document in the Federal Register is not as clear as all that. It does say: The proposed architecture of the 787 is different from that of existing production (and retrofitted) airplanes....
 
Tags: data, airplane data buses, on-board computer networks, networks, systems, control systems, communication systems, control, aircraft data buses
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Situations for Event Processing

2008-07-15 05:04:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...airplanes and omit objects like birds, buildings; but we will include wind, air speed, and direction Our situational model consists of primary objects, in this case an airplane. Now we need a simple model of an airplane, which is modelled, in this overly simple example, as span, velocity, acceleration, altitude, orientation and relative wind...
 
Tags: model, airplane collision model, simple model, model simple, situations, hierarchical model, complex model, simple airplane model, real-time situation detection
 
 
 
 
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Complex Events are Composed of Objects Defined by States

2008-07-15 06:17:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...airplane collision. This complex event is composed of many objects than are not event-objects. In fact, depending on how you define event most of the components of the complex event, airplane collision are not events at all, but other situations or sub-states of the objects under observation, in this case an aircraft For example, the...
 
Tags: event, defines event, define event, define, complex event, objects, complex events, events, event-objects
 
 
 
 
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Hijacking in New Zealand

2008-02-20 07:26:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...airplane hijacking was over, that it would no longer be possible to hijack an airplane and demand a ransom or demand passage to some exotic location? Turns out that's just not true; there still can be traditional non-terrorist hijackings And even more interesting, the media coverage reflected that. Read the links above. They're calm and...
 
Tags: traditional, traditional non-terrorist hijackings, demand passage, demand, airplane, media coverage, weeks ago, exotic location, zealand
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...airplane, it's our data that determines how thoroughly we get searched -- or whether we get to board at all. If the government wants to investigate us, they're more likely to go through our data than they are to search our homes; for a lot of that data, they don't even need a warrant Who controls our data controls our lives It's true. Whoever...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Hijacker Working at Heathrow Airport

2008-05-19 13:02:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An airplane hijacker -- a real one, someone with actual airplane hijacking experience -- was working at Heathrow Airport Surreal EDITED TO ADD (5/19): Or maybe he wasn't working at the airport itself. Anyone have any more information
 
Tags: airport, heathrow airport, actual airplane, airplane hijacker, information, experience, surreal, real
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...airplane, it's our data that determines how thoroughly we get searched -- or whether we get to board at all. If the government wants to investigate us, they're more likely to go through our data than they are to search our homes; for a lot of that data, they don't even need a warrant Who controls our data controls our lives It's true. Whoever...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Airplane Stowaways

2008-01-29 14:33:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Two Ethiopian cabin cleaners were found hiding in the ceiling of an aircraft after it landed at Dulles. Presumably they were allowed on the plane at Addis Abbaba, but no one checked to make sure they got off
 
Tags: ethiopian cabin cleaners, addis abbaba, plane, aircraft, dulles
 
 
 
 
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How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide

2008-01-26 03:33:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
Did you know every 11 days an airliner deploys its inflatable evacuation slide? And that's just in the United States. To help prepare you for such an event, Time magazine has a pretty good how-to article
 
Tags: inflatable evacuation slide, how-to article, airliner deploys, time magazine, event, days, pretty, prepare