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| China Clones, Sells Russian Fighter Jets |
| 2010-12-06 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Sounds to me that a "Loaded" OS would only require a Magnetic Pulse to down the planes. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-12-06 23:36 |
| #4 A smarter way to keep the brains out of planes etc, is to have them load at launch, and wipe on a power outage (landing, crash etc) Basicaly the equivalent of keeping all the programming in ram, but loaded from a trusted server. Of course I'm three whiskeys in at this point... |
| Posted by: flash91 2010-12-06 22:23 |
| #3 Sounds like what is needed is a software/hardware arcana, a black box without which the aircraft cannot function, which is impervious to useful scanning, and is destroyed when it is opened. Most electronics are simple, because of the limited number of components that *typically* can be used. Resistors, capacitors and batteries, inductors, switches and transistors, are pretty standard in their use, whether in micro or macro levels. But these can be redesigned, to obfuscate their function and circuit. That is, that unless you measure the circuit while it is running, it could be one of a hundred possible circuits. And when its case is tampered with, it scrambles the current flow and operating instructions. Versions of this have been around for a long time, mostly using surges of static when the case was opened. But the technology never advanced much, mostly because there was little that valuable to protect. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-06 13:38 |
| #2 Kinda like a knock off Gucci or Rolex. It looks like the real thing but it'll never work as well. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-12-06 11:40 |
| #1 Again? "We need to pay more attention to our intellectual property rights." Yeah. That would have stopped the whole this right there. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-12-06 11:27 |