[geeks] Unsecured Wifi connections now illegal in part of India.

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Jan 14 18:46:47 CST 2009


wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Phil
> Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
>> wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>>> Actually if you look into flight 93, the terrorists got into the
>>> cockpit and yet the passengers couldn't break down the door
>>> rolling a food cart into it. How did the "bad guys" get in?  Were
>>> they let in?   I wonder....
>> They social-engineered the flight crew into opening the door by
>> slashing one of the flight attendants to death and threatening to
>> do the same to the others, if memory of reports at the time serves.
>> 
> 
> So the whole idea of reinforcing the door is nothing more than crap.
> Reinforcing it is worthless if it gets opened.  Maybe the door was
> fine as is.  Guess you have to redesign the plane so the pilots enter
> the cockpit from an external door and there is no connection to the
> main cabin.  They did modify planes so no one could hijack a plane,
> demand money and parachute out while in flight.  Either that or do
> the "Fifth Element" trick.....put all of the passengers asleep before
> flight. :)

Or you could always let passengers with CCW permits fly armed.

"You open cockpit door or I kill stewardess!"

*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*

"...Never mind, Captain, he's changed his mind.  Permanently."


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